Get the news you need to start your day. The nonprofit hopes to acquire other parcels on the block, which would create a 1. The center's leaders plan to spend months meeting with community members to decide what form development there will take, Taylor said. From to , police responded to more than 1, calls at the motel or within a block of it, made arrests for prostitution and 46 arrests for other crimes, and responded to 20 deaths, mostly drug-related, according to data cited in a January report by NBC Philadelphia police were unable to immediately provide updated statistics.
Jamina Clay-Dingle, Bethune School's principal, said her staff sometimes had to find emergency housing for students whose families had brought them to live at the motel.
With the motel gone, the surrounding neighborhood's odds are better for joining in the revitalization that's been creeping into nearby areas to the benefit of Bethune students, Lenfest Center users, and residents alike, LISC's Frishkoff said. Skip to content. North Philly motel attracted drugs and prostitution. A nonprofit bought it and shut it down. The Liberty Motel at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Westmoreland Street after the property was bought with plans to redevelop the site for part of a mixed-use project that backers hope will help revitalize the surrounding community.
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