ICE CUBES: New talk about filling the hole behind Anastasi Seafood

A recent Italian-Market story printed in the Philadelphia Business Journal and re-blogged by Grub Street yesterday mentions that the gaping hole behind Anastasi Seafood off the corner of Ninth Street and Washington Avenue is set to become a mixed-use restaurant/retail business courtesy of the N.Y.-based Midwood Investment & Development.

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ICE CUBES: New talk about filling the hole behind Anastasi Seafood

POSTED: Friday, July 13, 2012, 1:04 PM

Filed Under: Ice Cubes

A recent Italian-Market story printed in the Philadelphia Business Journal and re-blogged by Grub Street yesterday mentions that the gaping hole behind Anastasi Seafood off the corner of Ninth Street and Washington Avenue is set to become a mixed-use restaurant/retail business courtesy of the N.Y.-based Midwood Investment & Development. The one time Ice House space (once owned by neighboring Giordano’s Fruit & Produce) is scheduled to hold 31,000 square feet of underground parking, which is good for the car-spot-stressed area replete with business owners and vendors.

For the record though, this is the same story that this very writer wrote about for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 2009 and again for a City Paper cover in 2010. Is this just a case of the development firm putting out feelers and trying to initiate a discussion with the City so to finally put into use a space it has held for five-plus years? At one point, long before discussions arose regarding a retail/restaurant space for that corner, a tony home for the elderly and the infirm was discussed for that space. At present, a similarly themed home is currently being erected at 10th and Ellsworth streets. A rep from Midwood told PBJ that they’d like to have the Ninth & Washington project up and running for 2014. Stay tuned.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net) (@ADAmorosi)

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