Hassle i want to address one thing the distinction between the old and new residents the existing laws impact similarities ability to come in where it would this legislation if it were passed would impasse the folks ability to have quasi Hotel Businesses so the extent that the hotel limits one to a home sharing opportunity did that result in a eviction and it doesnt then youre not talking about displaying residents thats not an issue 0 now what upstairs its a question of are the perspectives for new tenants limited because they want to do home sharing and not renting the person is is the the second thing is im concerned that if this legislation didnt pass with if it passes with challenges and hoops the businesses go back underground to craigs list thank you. Thank you im going to reread the names of the people that evaporate testified yet in case you walked into the room calling names okay looks like none of them are here so ill read another batch actually, the final batch calling name
Right now on nbc 10 news at 5, a rape investigation. Philadelphia police were called to a parking garage where a woman says she was attacked this morning. Detectives have been on scene now since the call came at around 11 00 a. M. Within the last hour, we Learned Police have a person of interest in for questioning. Nbc 10s Harry Hairston is live in Spring Garden and joins us with more. Harry . Reporter right now, police are talking to a person of interest at the special victims unit. Im also told sometime after 6 00, police will make some type of formal announcement. First take a look behind me at the parking garage. The second floor is where the crime allegedly happened according to police. We have fresh video from inside that scene that i want to show it to you right now because the crime unit has now finished processing that area. This happened right between two vehicles. Its right near a lexus that youre looking at. The white lexus and a fusion car. And they say thats where the wom
2014, and we also have done the survey result and we have good things to share about that and we ask some questions, specific about jefferson street, and some questions that we have asked throughout the years to see how the people think about the wharf and gauge it what we have seen the down trend of the neglective comments and the respondents were asked an open question and do you dislike most about the wharf, the number one response is that there is nothing. And so i love that and so the issues are regarding the public realm that shows the wharfs improvement, and the answer is too crowded and lack of seating appeared in all three surveys but the numbers have decreased as you can see in 2006 it went from 25 and up in 2010 and now at 15 percent and the people that answered and lack of seating and they dont like it decreased 3 to 1 percent and when one of the goals was to create an atmosphere that stays at the wharf and those staying one hour less been on the decline in 2006, eleven per
Counts at the wharf. So a lot of people. And we are tracking phase one and the impact that it has had on the community and that is what i want to share with you right now. Impacts of jefferson street one and we track 18 businesses on the block of jefferson street from july to november of 2013, this will be the first months that the street opened and we could really gauge how it was having an impact and when impairing the gross sales to the same period in 2012, businesses increase month to month and between 10 and 21 percent on average they generated 1. 5 million more han the Previous Year and added 150,000 more in sales tax during that 5 move period. With the changes to the phase one and how the signage was accompanying the street and the parking lot known as the triangle parking lot, and with the parking control officers in place from june to august and restricting off of jefferson street the public is accessing a lot from the sources like powell and taylor streets and in 2013, there
To jefferson street and also the expansion of tail lor street and the pier 43 promenade where a lot of seating was added. Something else that exciting to see that in 14, 15, 121 million, by private businesses and there is one on here, no, i remove this sorry, but the wax Museum Building and the pirepresentative, and the hotel and all of these businesses have been putting a lot of money in, considering 14, 15, 121 Million Dollars is more than the years of 2013, 12, and 11 combined and so this is a trickling of a Capitol Improvements being put in by private businesses in the wharf and the visitors reactions have been good as well when asked what they thought about the changes and three fourths of the visitors approved or strongly approved of the changes and only less than 2 percent dressed any degree of disapproval of what has been done and phase one of a redesigned jefferson street in june of 2013, and two years since this completion and we see these numbers and these survey results to