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- 🏗️ Apartments to replace Big Macs on Broad 🍿 New life for old movie theater 🎤 MCR, Linkin Park come to South Philly
🏗️ Apartments to replace Big Macs on Broad 🍿 New life for old movie theater 🎤 MCR, Linkin Park come to South Philly
Plus, mayhem at the Chris Brown concert.
Happy Thursday, South Philly.
In this week’s Scoop …
It’s yet another busy concert weekend in South Philly. Hopefully the My Chemical Romance concert at CBP goes better than the Chris Brown concert did on Sunday.
84 apartments are coming to Broad Street, replacing a vacant lot that used to house a McDonald’s.
Riverview Plaza is getting a movie theater again!
Now, on to this week’s top story …
🗿 Rizzo statue could find new home in South Philly
The statue of former mayor (and South Philadelphian) Frank Rizzo — removed from its Center City perch during the civil unrest of 2020 — will be returned to a committee of supporters, with plans to display it elsewhere. The city’s Art Commission, as part of an agreement between the government and the Frank L. Rizzo Monument Committee, voted Wednesday for the deaccession — or removal from its holdings — of the statue.