Recently, nearby residents celebrated the new pedestrian lighting project on Baltimore Avenue.
50th and Baltimore
The 71 new old-fashioned streetlamps were installed between 45th and 50th streets along the commercial corridor in an effort to make it more inviting. They stopped just short of VIX though, since we’re a few steps beyond 50th. We felt a little left out about that.
Not for long, though! Construction just began for more pretty lights on our block and the 5100 block of Baltimore. Yay! That will be great for us. It will also be great for our new neighbors. Rumor has it that we will soon have a vintage clothing shop next door, and a certain local businessperson has just bought the storefront three doors down. We are very excited about this!
More construction and destruction is happening across the street, at the Philadelphia Federal Credit Union. It used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
It’s weird to see all that empty space on the corner! The new building will go up soon though and it promises to be a big improvement with the ability to serve more customers, whom we also look forward to meeting.
It’s really great to see so much renovation on this block, though it will be nice when all the noise and dust of construction is over. Hopefully by the holiday season there will be lots more to love about our neighborhood…
