Richmond Street Businesses

I saw the new flower shop on Richmond - looks cute. Hope it get's some business. That stretch of road certainly needs help. Doesn't help the businesses that the parking is impossible on Richmond. I hope this works.

Kat, there is a new candy shop further up a couple of doors south of the market. I think it is called Sweets & Treats.

That's right! Saw that again last night on the way back from my daughter's play rehersal. The people that I see on that street more often than not really don't look like the type of people who are looking for upscale candy and flowers though unfortunately. I certainly hope they are successful.

I've been saying that I want to stop in the Candy Store but never seem to have the time when I'm over there.

Isn't that basically how they got all those little shops in the Piazza when it first opened? Not free rent but I heard it was significantly reduced. I still don't know how some of those shops make enough to stay open.

Whats the name of the flower shop? The flower shop I used to patronize recently closed and I am looking for a new one to order from.

the problem is they haven't. there is incredible turnover in the Piazza and Liberties Walk. getting someone in isn't the problem. the hike in rent after the initial lease is one of the problems.

http://philadelphia.afloristin.com/index.htm

If they would give me a free store for six months I could do really amazing things with it. I would start a Swap Shop where people could come in and trade stuff that they have for stuff that I have. I wouldn't really sell anything so nobody would have to pay any taxes and at the end of the six months I would have lots and lots of cool things.

I think I would probably name it Ye Olde Curiosness Shoppe after that famous book. If th still wants to go into business I'd let him run the store when I wasn't there and I would pay him with stuff in the store but he couldn't be too greedy. I'm not sure whether he would be or not. It kind of seems that way from the stuff he posts here but sometimes you don't get a good impression of who people are just from what they write on the internet.

Richmond Street was a nice shopping area. I remember grocery shopping at Sid's Market, visiting the Gwiazda (Polish) newspaper offices, getting glasses before school started at the optical shop, Mom looking in the jewelry shop, getting Buster Brown shoes at the shoe store, stopping at the bakery for jelly roll cake with my Babci, getting comic books at the variety store, Sam's store having just bout everything under one roof. I remember Sid's the most fondly-the butcher area, produce man Jake who always had fresh pickles in the barrel. Pigs feet all lined up on the bottom shelf of the butcher case. Salted fish. It was a lot of fun being a kid in that store in the late 1960's
I've always wanted to open up a coffee shop and my husband wants to have live music in the mix. Maybe someday...

I drive down Richmond every day on the way home from work and lately I have really paid attention to the amount of vacant store fronts there are. It's crazy how many there are. How awesome would it be if that could be turned into a shopping destination of sorts. (WIthout a bunch of dollar stores and check cashing places).

10 yrs ago after observing what opens frequently across the city I had thought of opening "PhillyMart". Everything you expect in Philly under one roof:

- Sneakers
- Hoochiemama clothes
- gold plated (1-atom thick) jewelry
- check cashing
- payday loans
- wigs
- 4 nail stores
- Chinese take out food court
- 15,000 sqft Sally's beauty supply
- 5 dollar stores inside
- 2 game stops

At one point between 10th and 13th on Chestnut there used to be 8 dollar stores open, 2 more and it could have applied for neighborhood designation status as "Dollar Row"

I think it was on Woodland Ave where I saw the largest concentration of beauty and nail shops in one area, like 2 blocks of solid storefronts and that's ALL there was. I mean not even room for a MetroPCS store there.

I walk my dog down the stretch between Ann and Allegheny multiple times a week and feel equal parts of depression and opportunity for the street. I don't realistically see any sort of large-scale transformation happening until after the portions of the 95 Revive program between BRB and Girard are completed.

Brings back memories of my favorite trashy place on earth, the Pennsauken Mart. Now I have to head to Quakertown to get my fill of crazy people, military knives, car speakers and insanely bad for you fried food

Save your gas.
http://www.berlinmarket.com/

bah! zern's is so much better than q mart. they even have a live stock and auto auction.