Thousands of dollars worth of jewels. Our Natasha Brown is live in center city with more on the growing retail opportunities want Business Owners would like to be doing to protect them from crime. Natasha . Reporter several retail burglaries just recently certainly has some store owners rattled. They want more police presence. Especially in light of the fact that theres a recent retail surge in Center City Philadelphia. Center city philadelphia has become a bustling retail destination. Shoppers gliding in and out of new stores like century 21 on market street. With that ease comes the ease of criminals targeting high you haveend stores in the overnight hours friday, thieves shattered windows here at century 21 store stealing display items like clothing and accessories. The newly opened Bloomingdales Outlet at Liberty Place became the target of nine masked thieves who gotta with with to thousand dollars worth of jeans tuesday evening. A bunch of trays of diamond earrings down here and t
The flames from chopper three near the sunoco eagle point facility on crown point road. Crews are on the scene working to get things under control. Its you unclear right now what starter the fire. Developing now a two harm fire at a condo complex in Florence Burlington county. At the toll gate condos on florence toll gate road. Officials tell us they have gotten the bulk of the fire under control. One person was taken to the hospital. Good evening, im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We begin tonight with a rash of thefts from center city stores. The most recent happened along jewelers row. Thieves gotta with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewels. Our Natasha Brown is live in center city with more on the growing retail opportunities want Business Owners would like to be doing to protect them from crime. Natasha . Reporter several retail burglaries just recently certainly has some store owners rattled. They want more police presence. Especially in light of the fact that ther
Strategic. You can see these individuals new exactly what they were looking for and went to some specific items. But it is not the first time this store, a fixture of jewelry row, for more than 100 years, has been hit by a heist. It is violating. Barski says back in november 2014 crooks cut through the security gate stole about 200,000 worth of jewelry. But more than the cash, he says, the thieves are stealing a sense of security. It is just after hours, it is like there is no no patrols. It is like open season. Thats unacceptable, the family says, when the shop shells out tens of thousands of dollars a year in taxes. The business privilege tax that we have here, for what, we have no protection, we get robbed. Whats the privilege . Jeffrey barski says if crime goes up, so do the for rent signs and it is bringing business down. This is the problem. We dont have police protection. Customers dont feel safe. And it is a spiral. In center city, anita oh, cbs3, Eyewitness News. Philadelphias
The subject was "Michael’s Law," a bill calling for public venues to not charge admission fees for personal care attendants accompanying individuals with disabilities.