Neighbors Allied for the Best Riverfront

Neighbors Allied for the Best Riverfront has been asked to participate in an upcoming exhibition at Vox Populi entitled “This Is Not the Future,” which opens on Friday, June 1. We will be exhibiting text, drawings, images and video from our recent Community Design Workshop, an event which dared to challenge the “official” version of the future of our riverfront — 2 Las Vegas-sized casino slot parlors.

Exhibition Dates: Friday, June 1 – Friday, June 29
Opening Reception: First Friday, June 1, 6-11 PM

This Is Not the Future
at Vox Populi
319 A N 11th St, 3rd Floor

A Community Design Workshop for the Delaware Riverfront
Saturday, June 2, 9:30 AM to 2:00 PM at St. Anne’s Social Hall, Memphis and Tucker Sts. (behind the church on Lehigh)
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This will be your chance to design the riverfront you would like to see in your own neighborhood. Help your community reconnect to the river!

Can’t draw? No problem! We will have architects and urban planners on hand to help residents draw out their ideas for the Delaware Riverfront.

Childcare and food will be provided. Fun for the whole family. Lots of activities.
Bring your ideas and a friend!

Please join state Rep. Babette Josephs on Friday at noon, for the unveiling of legislation that would require a 1,500 foot buffer zone between area neighborhoods and new casino development in the city.

Josephs will hold a news conference and rally in support of her bill:

Fridary, June 8, 12pm
Dillworth Plaza, on the west side of City Hall
15th and Market

Our friends at Casino-Free Philadelphia are calling on all supporters to gather at City Hall on June 13th to demand that City Council vote against zoning bills legalizing the construction of SugarHouse Casino within two hundred feet of a residential community.

At the same City Council Rules Committee hearing, we will ask them to send the 1,500-foot buffer zone -- supported by the majority of Philadelphians -- to Council for passage. In our Philly's Ballot Box election, 95% of the voters expressed their support for this buffer.