Skip Schwab (ELDI) and Rob Pfaffman (Pfaffman and Associates) are getting the community planning process for “Bakery Row” geared up again. Rob writes:

Another key part of our planning team is Jim Hartling of Urban Partners Philadelphia, who is looking at the market and giving us important feedback about where things are heading in the real estate market. Last Fall a blog was set up by Rob Stephany that gives you some sense of the process and feedback.

http://eastlibertypost.com/bakery-row-forum/

Based on meetings with the steering committee, developer interviews and data analysis, Jim and I are beginning to gear up to develop new vision documents that build on last year’s community meeting and market research.

We will be focusing (while not ignoring of course all of the other ideas developed last fall) on a couple of key areas based on the initial recommendations of Urban Partners:

• Repairing the streetscape connection between downtown East Liberty and Penn Avenue developments (Bakery Row)
• Focus design efforts on the Giant Eagle Shakespeare Street Development to create a better designed mixed use urban development transformation. (need a new gas station site to incent GE!)
• Work with Club One to explore the redesign of the street edge of the facility.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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