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Hundreds sign Finnigan's Wake petition, suspect backroom dealings
Northern Liberties neighbors say Councilman DiCicco has agreed to put the bill to strike Bodine Street on hold, following a local outcry.
Hundreds sign Finnigan's Wake petition, suspect backroom dealings
If you thought people in Northern Liberties were fired up about SugarHouse Casino coming in, just try to take away a public street for the purpose of putting a three-story outdoor party deck up on Finnigan's Wake. Since we mentioned it last, neighbors have been organizing, and have gathered 448 signatures within a week — more than they had to block the casino, says Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association president Matt Ruben. (The petition is online here.)
Ruben says neighbors are disturbed not only by the prospect of three floors of jagerbomb-soaked fun, but also by the bar's longtime use of the alleyway as its own garbage area (apparently without recycling), and by what they say is evident political deal-making. "The owners of Finnigan's Wake have been politically connected for many years. They host a lot of Democratic Party events there," he says. Which might be why Bob Brady's Democratic City Committee agreed to set back its new headquarters next door by a few feet to make way for the party decks — and in fact built those setbacks into plans that have been in place for some time already. "The Democratic City Committee's architectural plans included a setback. They coordinated the design of the project uwith the assumption that the outdoor deck would be put in place and the street stricken. Anyone who wants to know if they coordinated on this: there's your answer."
Ruben says DiCicco has pledged to hold the bill for now to make time for more dialog between the bar and the community, but he hasn't withdrawn it. "I don't want our neighborhood to have to negotiate with Finnigan's with the street-striking hanging over their heads," he adds.
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