From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [UC] which bad thing?
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 06:32:41 EDT
... if Penn/UCD/Drexel/Campus Apts really want to push off
some of the operating expense of the UCD on the residents/beneficiaries
then
they would, in the end, support our new community based and
There is substantial evidence that what you say is true, but I'm willing to
believe that they just want the "clean and safe" and would cede the power if
it got done by the comuntiy. But if my idea served to "out" their real
intentions, then it would be nice to know them sooner rather than la
In a message dated 6/8/07 12:14:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I personally believe that what the institutions and the corporate landlords
> are really after is the power to control the direction of the neighborhood,
> and would indeed balk if a substitute that they did not control came into
>
Melani and Karen,
I'm not sure that the Big Universities and Big Landlords are all as
organized as we give them credit. I think I've used the analogy before of
hearing
the old Black Panthers talking about "The Establishment" and how everyone and
everything was united against them. When t
In a message dated 6/8/2007 12:54:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I can say that they are smart enough to understand that THEIR version of
the NID/BID is troubled and , with these new Fenton/UCD developments, that
their chances of getting neighborhood support mi
As have others heretofore.
Melani explained it best. The original UC returnees tried to sustain The
University City Special Services District with their patronage and
donations, but they did not have enough.
They ALSO tried to makeover the abandoned Firehouse at 50th & Baltimore
(using the surro
