Monica Yant Kinney Rocks. (We especially like the comments about blight. Why? Because people out there in Blog Land, Ardmore is still laboring under a bogus blight designation thanks to the thoughtful actions of those who govern and governed us, as well as the laws of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
Monica Yant Kinney | Making sense of Cramer Hill
The people screamed, the officials stumbled, and the bulldozers will have to wait a lot longer to chew up a little less of Cramer Hill.
That's the best I can make of Camden's abrupt halt to one neighborhood's extreme makeover.
Just last year, city officials were giddy at the thought of building 5,000 suburban-style homes, a marina, and a golf course to lure the monied masses back to town.
Now, two years and a quarter-mil into a losing legal battle, they're starting over again, asking whether Cramer Hill even needs to be redeveloped.
The outsiders who run Camden have only themselves to blame. ...
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