[UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Krfapt
Article below from the DP.   Another aspiring entrepreneur, carefully vetted by the Omar Blaik team at Penn to have the privilege of paying too much rent for university-owned commercial space, is pulling up stakes. It's my (admitted) conjecture that folks like this get bamboozled by the smoo

Re: [UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Widyono
> Oh, yes. And the diligent investigative reporter (maybe he'll learn by the > end of the semester) who wrote this piece mentioned the bike shop in another > high-rent district, totally ignoring "The Bicycle Doctor" on Lancaster Ave, Student authors are there to learn, as well. You can tea

RE: [UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Kyle Cassidy
>I agree that they should "know more" about the neighborhood west of 40th St., >and expose it to the students who seem to be living in said neighborhood in >larger quantities as time goes on (for the past 14 years at least). When I started at penn, about seven years ago, I was told in my orienta

Re: [UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Widyono
Huh. In my orientation in '90 I was never informed that Center City was the "Badlands". I got held up at gunpoint in the lobby of my 22nd & Spruce apartment in '95. Go figure. At least we didn't have trash piling up in the back or random gunfights next door or... cats pretending they're your de

Re: [UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Benseraglio2
In a message dated 9/14/2004 10:31:39 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I started at penn, about seven years ago, I was told in my orientationmeeting "we recommend that you not go west of 40th street."Of course, I'd already moved in on 46th ... And held up at gunpoint a mo

Re: [UC] Another of Penn's "vetted" shops in high-cost space goes kablooie

2004-09-14 Thread Stephen Fisher
Actually Narberth IS really nice this time of year. Unfortunately it's a 20min commute (unfortunately longer if you use SEPTA) and it's overrun with little kids running most of whom are playing with toy guns...Kyle and Dan, surely you agree that the real thing is much more of an adrenaline rus