Posted 5:04 PM by Gene

I have just received the dispiriting news that a supermarket a convenient few steps away (really a glorified corner grocery) will close in two weeks. What's upsetting is not so much it's closing, or even that it probably won't be replaced (the property's too small; over the past six months they'd reduced store hours, and people complained about the noise of its deliveries) but that the site will no doubt be RENDELLIZED, either with another pretentious superexpensive restaurant (the Kimmel Mausoleum's across the street, though it faces the rear entrance) or worse, with ANOTHER RENDELLMINIUM, which maybe the IDIOT SCRIBBLERS who now write the name PHILADELPHIA within an en-space of HIP think we need, but which CONDOMANIA suggests we MAY NOT. I'm not totally out of luck -- Center City has two A & Ps, er, SUPERFRESHES -- but every time I hear words like HOT I wonder if the city I was born and raised in is becoming any better, especially as the surrounding neighborhoods aren't.

P. S. I cannot find a blasted thing about it online, ANYWHERE -- and you'd think the RENDELLIZERS would go NUTS as this IS PRRRRRRRRRIME REAL ESTATE. One possible negative for CONDOS: the first twelve floors on the east side would look out onto the Mausoleum's glass and brick, the first eleven floors on the north side would stare at a parking garage, the south side would face out to a new RENDELLMINIUM under construction, and I suspect the owners of the HISTORIC LANDMARK where I live would object because it would block THEIR view, and the MAUSOLEUM was built in no small measure to be framed by it. And if you want to imagine CONDOS with no views, take a trek to 15th and Locust, the Grand Canyon of Center City -- and anyone facing out on it is at the BOTTOM of it.

P. P. S. Which isn't to say people aren't DOING something about our city's lack of supermarkets, hardy har har.