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Harrison Finberg

@harrisonfinberg

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Builder/Investor

Passyunk, Philadelphia
Joined March 2011
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
1 year
1.3 million views. This is the best ad for Philadelphia maybe ever
@tim__fitzgerald
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1 year
How this apartment is not 10,000/month is insane to me.
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I will never understand why this is good or matters at all.. done trying
@BarstoolPhilly
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6 months
Having all the teams together >>>>
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Shut down sansom, rebuild the arch. This seems obvious?
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3 years
Crazy to think this perfectly normal building was the subject of a big NIMBY fight a couple years ago
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7 months
Will never understand how this hellhole beat out Atlantic City
@FrankLuntz
Frank Luntz
7 months
On the eve of the #SuperBowl , it takes one hour to drive exactly one mile down the Vegas Strip.
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@harrisonfinberg
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What a septa story today. Woman on the el tells man to stop smoking, he punches her and then she stabs him.
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@harrisonfinberg
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4 months
Philadelphia is a top tier landing spot for married east coast millennials that want to buy a house and don’t want to die of boredom in the suburbs. Seeing so much of this.
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@harrisonfinberg
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3 years
All sorts of good news on nextdoor today
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
Latest lumber quote for 1700 sf townhouses - 23k. Was around 70k in ‘21
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1 year
If we were sacrificing one of the highways, I would’ve preferred 76
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@harrisonfinberg
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5 months
I don’t know if anyone else noticed but the inquirer is running weird NIMBY propaganda on TikTok
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@harrisonfinberg
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3 months
A few headlines today…
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@harrisonfinberg
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3 months
There’s a lot of things we get wrong in Philadelphia but I can say with confidence that Rittenhouse Square is the world’s greatest urban park
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
Taken from my job site in Kensington
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@harrisonfinberg
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Everytime I visit Atlantic City I think: this city should have roughly double the population it has.
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@harrisonfinberg
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Oh well, at least he got it built. I think it’s going to be a landmark for the next couple hundred years
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@trdny
The Real Deal
5 months
Michel Stern has defaulted on Brooklyn’s tallest tower at 9 DeKalb.
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
8 months
What is preventing you from moving to Philadelphia?
@JJ_21564
Jay
8 months
Took the camera out for a walk today
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
People not from Philadelphia may think having a dead mall on market street is normal - it’s not. Historically market east was and is supposed to be one of the busiest parts of center city
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@harrisonfinberg
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Spelling out the obvious here but turning down a $1.5 billion, unsubsidized project in the heart of Center City and letting the 76ers move to New Jersey would be an all time L for our city. The sort of thing we’d talk about for 50 years.
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
Manhattan is now a Philly suburb
@EmpireStateBldg
Empire State Building
2 years
Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory.
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@harrisonfinberg
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Never gets old, new housing on a small alley
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
Man the center city wawa’s don’t stand a chance tonight
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@harrisonfinberg
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8 months
For everyone asking, model homes always look like this with no driveway. The garage is used as a sales office not for parking until the project is sufficiently sold out and the model home is sold.
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
Here’s how much money a new 260 unit apartment building is generating yearly for it’s school district in the suburbs.
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@harrisonfinberg
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8 months
New houses in the mid 300’s, American dream is alive in Delaware
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Office landlords getting desperate
@nypost
New York Post
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Gen Z women have gotten significantly hornier in return to office work — here’s why: study
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
7 months
A little over 2 years ago, on January 18th 2022, Mayor Kenney signed the mandatory inclusionary zoning bill into law. This law requires in new multifamily buildings built by private developers, 20% of units to be affordable to people making 40% of area median income. It applies
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
3 months
Most important 500 mile stretch on earth and we’re right in the middle
@BrilliantMaps
Brilliant Maps
3 months
As a non-American it's shocking how close these cities are to each other
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If you have a 1 day a week job in Manhattan, I highly recommend living in Philadelphia and upping your QOL by 10x.
@GayBearRes
GBR, LLC
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Someone is asking a very obvious question without an obvious answer
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
2 years
Closed $10mm in construction and tax credit financing to redevelop this, Sykes Brothers Yarn Mill built 1881
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This is what 500k gets you in Philly
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@harrisonfinberg
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Manayunk is Europe
@jeremyzorek
Jeremy "Looking for Arrows" Zorek🚰
4 months
Manayunk vibes
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@harrisonfinberg
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1 year
Let’s all acknowledge how weird and nasty the Helen Gym campaign was. Weird as hell
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
9 months
Sounds horrible, imagine if someone proposed this in Philadelphia.
@molfully
mol 🧸
9 months
i need ppl not from the area to understand that this is shifting the arena from practically dead center of the metro line to almost at the bottom, even ppl in virginia who live west vs south will have to go practically into the city and then back south
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@harrisonfinberg
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Big picture: crime is down in philly, foot traffic is up, immigration is up, surrounding regions (PA suburbs, nyc etc) aren’t building and are becoming very expensive. All signs point to a strong and growing Philadelphia
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1 year
Thank you Philly for not making Gym our mayor
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
@salimfurth My favorite part, regular white people become ‘3rd generation immigrants’ when they oppose housing
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@harrisonfinberg
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She’s really not, crime is down and residents of Kensington have some hope for the first time in almost a decade. Drug markets and encampments certainly wouldn’t be tolerated where you live on the main line.
@Will_Bunch
Will Bunch
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I'm sorry but new Philly mayor Cherelle Parker is off to a terrible, terrible start. I had concerns at the start but it's been worse than I feared
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@harrisonfinberg
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Project I just built- the rare single family homes that are only accessible for pedestrians, so no garage, driveway or street frontage. Original proposal was 5 homes but plan was whittled down by the local rco and zoning board..
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2 years
I don’t know if we need to panic every time a juice bar doesn’t renew their lease
@KeeleyFox29
Steve Keeley
2 years
Another Center City coffee shop/juice bar closing in same week two Wawa stores shut down for good. Animo,17th&Arch Streets. closes Friday,not renewing lease,two doors away from Wawa that reduced its hours,closing at night&reopening morning because of crime ⁦ @FOX29philly
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@harrisonfinberg
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We need to look at the judges in town. A guy broke into my building, stole 12k worth of stuff. He already had 2 bench warrants for other cases. Bail was 25k, post 2,500. Bail hearing-DA asks for higher bail, judge lets him out for 0. Prelim today and he of course doesn’t show up.
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@harrisonfinberg
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People in philly are so negative about any big/cool idea. The beach and pool at 30th st station looks great and we should have it
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@seandsweeney Meanwhile vast majority of single family homes aren’t ADA complaint and no one cares..
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@harrisonfinberg
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It’s not easy fighting for nice things in Philly, most people wouldn’t want to be targeted by nut jobs like this
@FailSepta
SEPTA FAIL
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1/4 Once again Ladies and Gentlemen this is Jay Arzu, he is a PhD student at Univ. of Penn. He wants to build a subway and takeaway highways in Philadelphia and Now wants a congestion tax on autos. He is a POLITICAL INFLUENCER from Rochester, NY trying to tell others what to do.
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@harrisonfinberg
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Some renderings of my upcoming multifamily proposal at 931 N Broad in Philadelphia, right on top of the subway station. By kjo architecture @kevin_j_oneill
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@harrisonfinberg
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2 years
@JHWeissmann I wish people would just stop talking about Jews
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3 years
Good sign, condo tower without parking in Miami nearly sold out
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2 years
NIMBY’s against affordable housing on city-owned land again, 3rd time this year in South Philly
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3 years
My favorite block in North Philly 👍
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The city of Philadelphia is completely planned around SEPTA. Historically it was built this way and we are building thousands of housing units along mass transit right now. If SEPTA has to cut service by 20% next year like they say, that will completely upend our local planning.
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Key to happiness in Philly is being able to walk to work, even if it’s 45 mins. Much lower stress level than driving/parking or transit
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@RitchieTorres @AGHamilton29 This is exactly what the DSA is sadly…
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Beautiful day in Philadelphia, imagine if we had this bad boy on the schuylkill river- wouldn’t you be there?
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1 year
Yup, the pent up demand for a center city, transit oriented arena is pretty obvious
@ericjfink
This Is Fink Von Bro Dude
1 year
SEPTA not allowing fans on due to platform overload
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Harrison Finberg
3 years
Atlantic City is one of the few places on Philly’s level with housing on narrow, pedestrian-only streets
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
3 months
Great question
@chrisxmunn
Chris Munn
3 months
Train from Philly to NYC for 2: $328 Private Car for 2: $193 How does this make sense?
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I love the political dynamics in Florida. Here the Dems are mad about a zoning preemption law that was passed by Republicans that will allow a workforce housing 30 story high rise in wealthy Miami Beach.
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2 years
This is great
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@SelfishlyIDink @MondaireJones Red rose excusing this, that’s a shocker
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2 years
Traffic studies - kind of pseudoscience right?
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8 months
Reading Terminal market should be open until 10pm minimum, hopefully this happens with the Sixers arena. There's a food hall in downtown miami, not that different - completely packed at night for dinner hours...
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@harrisonfinberg
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@MazMHussain This is why you wait
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I have to demo this elevator shaft because of modern size requirements, very sad
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Probably one of the few little buildings from the early 1940’s in north philly. Will be restoring it as part of my project
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
2 years
How could the city be so stupid to require all applicants to live in the city 1 year PRIOR to applying?
@PhillyDailyNews
Philly Daily News
2 years
Daily News | Philadelphia city services reach crisis point as 1 in 7 municipal jobs sit vacant
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
1 year
Winners if the arena is built: - city’s finances - diverse construction companies - market east/center city stakeholders - 76ers Winners if it isn’t: - Comcast - people that have an irrational attachment to driving
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Harrison Finberg
1 year
The new plaza at 12 and chestnut is really great. Takes that corner from the worst in center city to one of the best.
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@billy_penn
Billy Penn
1 year
A big new development is revitalizing Market East, and it’s not a basketball arena
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It’s amazing, you build a nice roof deck and no one uses it. Overrated amenity
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
10 months
Big win for urbanism 👍
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@billy_penn
Billy Penn
10 months
The Sixers aim to minimize parking concerns at their proposed Center City arena with a new ‘smart routing’ partnership
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Important to remember on 76place: It includes 395 apartments, new train station access on Market, street retail on market + 2/3 of the gallery remains and will be stronger with consolidated tenants and a new focus. Not to mention the new/upgraded retail across the street.
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Harrison Finberg
6 months
Moving my office here this summer when it’s done. Will have 5 artist studios available + 49 apartments
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Harrison Finberg
30 days
Top 3 things I’m excited about in Philly: - crime is way down, Kensington is a priority - Northern Liberties/Fishtown is a boom town- becoming the best new development urban neighborhood in the US - Fry takes over Temple U on 11/1, will be an amazing turnaround story
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Harrison Finberg
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I’d like to understand why Chicago gets these big proposals and everyone loves them, while Philadelphia has to be paralyzed in fear for 2 years when we get them
@minc798
B Talent
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New potential Chicago megadevelopment just hit. The Reinsdorf and Wirtz families are proposing a $7B development around United Center that could add 5000 new residences, a 6000 seat music hall, new public green spaces, etc. Mostly private money minus maybe a new CTA stop...
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Harrison Finberg
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@mattyglesias There were celebration rallies all over the world the day after 10/7, it was pretty crazy
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Harrison Finberg
2 years
Always thought this was the ideal philly corner infill
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1 year
Philly media has been way too easy on our mayor
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
3 years
All of this vacant land right on the water… Atlantic City has some of the weirdest land use you’ll find anywhere
@dueforawin
Due For A Win: Atlantic City Podcast
3 years
We are here
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
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@AGHamilton29 The pro Hamas Jews must have serious daddy issues
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Harrison Finberg
1 year
Was this a financial success, all things considered?
@JohnJBlatchford
John Blatchford
1 year
Hudson Yards 2013. Hudson Yards 2023. Amazing things happen when builders build.
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This time of year, you really get the appeal of chestnut hill, roxborough etc. South Philly is too hot
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
4 months
Philadelphia restaurants should be this aggressive
@LaGrecca333
Boston Mom
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Several of these banners are hanging on Hanover street. Not very good PR for the mayor and the entire administration.
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
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@Yair_Rosenberg She needs to be fired
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
8 months
The #1 funniest part of the Kenney era was probably outsourcing the vaccine rollout to the Drexel undergrad.
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@mattyglesias People won’t be forgetting this, that’s for sure. A lot of people have lost credibility and will lose their careers.
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
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Recent urbanist wins in town - walnut open streets - bike lane enforcement and churches giving up permits - PPA upping enforcement - broad street traffic cameras (quietly a huge deal) - indego brought back single ride trips Things are moving in the right direction…
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
4 months
Inquirer says Mayor Parker got a standing ovation at her town hall in Kensington. Once again philly twitter represents a tiny slice of the city
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
6 months
It’s very important that those of us that want a vibrant center city push back. The negativity in town is deeply ingrained sadly
@howardeskin
Howard Eskin
6 months
@lindysnider8 The only city in American where all 4 pro sports teams are in the same area. That’s the way it should be, and the way the fans want it to be. #Sixers @76Place will be a disaster for the city. It’s called greed. @PhillyMayor @marksquilla And this posted on Washington Square West.
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2 years
@mnolangray 432 park has a lot of haters but it’s iconic
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2 years
Cleaning out the 6th floor
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Harrison Finberg
2 years
Spotted lumber stolen from me on FB marketplace. Worth like 15k, should I go take it back OJ style?
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Harrison Finberg
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If I were in charge of New Jersey/Camden, I’d do anything I could to get more homeowners into this area. Subsidies, tax credits, whatever you have to do - fully stabilize downtown as a 7 day a week community.
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
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@PEWilliams_ This is the kind of thing that’s such common sense I can’t believe it has to be explained over and over on here
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Just bought this little building in west philly, fun side project for me.
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Harrison Finberg
5 months
Just approved by ZBA thanks to strong community support
@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
9 months
Some renderings of my upcoming multifamily proposal at 931 N Broad in Philadelphia, right on top of the subway station. By kjo architecture @kevin_j_oneill
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@harrisonfinberg
Harrison Finberg
5 months
This better be filmed in Atlantic City
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
5 months
A live-action ‘MONOPOLY’ movie will be produced by Margot Robbie.
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Harrison Finberg
1 year
This is completely intentional. The zoning does not allow for small scale infill, lots were cleared for large projects that didn’t materialize. Not a natural market occurrence here
@skytopjf
Northeast Urbanist 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇵🇷
1 year
It’s fascinating that the most blighted city in New Jersey is… Atlantic City. Like, it’s a dense urban environment with blocks of empty, ocean front real estate, with failing 40 story casinos interspersed.
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Harrison Finberg
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Philly needs an advertising campaign about how warm it is in the winters now. We’re practically the sunbelt at this point
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Harrison Finberg
2 years
Just heard Allan Domb endorse covering vine street and building @BlvdSubway
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