Daily News | South Philly industrial site is turning into a shopping center with groceries and fast food
John's Roast Pork and the nearby Inolex facility in South Philadelphia, which will be redeveloped into retail and restaurant space.South Philadelphia’s auto-centric retail hub that borders the Pennsport and Whitman neighborhoods is set to expand. A new shopping center at 16 Snyder Ave. will offer a grocery store, chain fast-food restaurants with outdoor dining, and an overhaul of a neighboring street.
“We always feel like commercial use retailers benefit from other surrounding neighborhood retailers,” said David Newman, who heads Mid-Atlantic operations for the Newman Development Group. “Clearly there’s a lot of that across the street, so we feel like we fit really well into that.” There are still some Inolex office operations based at 16 Snyder Ave., according to neighborhood residents, but the days when the company employed many South Philadelphia residents are long gone. The jobs at the cosmetic manufacturer paid well and were organized under Teamsters Local 169. Kapczynski said the union jobs were one“I do like the industrial part where you can potentially have jobs that will support families and careers rather than just a cashier at a retail location,” he said.
Swanson will be changed to a standard 100-foot wide right-of-way, including sidewalks, which the road does not currently have, and a stormwater management system. Patterson also noted that Raising Cane and Shake Shack would both have outdoor seating.
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