Sofas of Shame

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Sofas of Shame - Philadelinquency

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Sofas of Shame - Philadelinquency

Great blog! The more I read about this, the more upset I get.

[ArcticSplash]

Not much you can really do to head-off stuff like this except to always be armed with attorneys prepared to sue. That way the fakey opposition can be cleared out and only the genuine opposition remains.

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Mid-Century opened several years ago in a category that’s rather unique to many hoods in Philadelphia: “The IKEA alternative” furniture store. IKEA sells far-East manufactured whimsies that is made to look mid-modern in certain ways. At Mid-Century, you can just get the genuine article.

And since mid-modern style is considered antique; you’ll keep this furniture around, rather than tossing it out on the street as soon as your cigarette ash has soiled the thin-padded cushions or the dog has scratched the hell out of the melamine common to IKEA-abuse-and-throw-away furniture.

But that’s not why we’re posting today. Remember that new Zoning Code that was supposed to make huge sweeping fix across Philly? Well, one item hasn’t changed, and that’s the torpedoing of ZBA hearings.

It turns out that another furniture store to operate around the corner has building owners that may have had an opposition against Mid-Century that had nothing to do with parking, or smelling linseed oil, or any other number of grievances.

The building owners of the competing furniture store live on the same block as Mid-Century.

One can only wonder if they conveniently left out of their ZBA testimony that their own building also has a furniture in inside of it.

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