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Free Library Block Party, Reading Terminal Market Expands, Failed Norristown Movie Studio

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/09/15 9:55 am | updated: 10/09/15 9:55 am

The Free Library of Philadelphia is holding a block party Saturday in North Philadelphia and it's all about words. The goal is to close the literacy gap between lower income and higher income families. Thirty million words â€” that's the difference in the vocabulary of a child from higher income versus a child from an economically challenged one. The Free Libraryâ€™s Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative is hoping to close the gap. Saturday the Free Library will throw a block party at its Widener Library location to share more information about Words at Play. The block party kicks off at noon and ends at 3 p.m. For more information, visit: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/branches/branch.cfm?loc=wid

Filbert Street will close between 11th and 12th Street Saturday so the Reading Terminal Market can expand, for the day. The Market plans to make the street closing a regular Saturday event for the rest of the month. Itâ€™s part of an effort to re-imagine the Marketâ€™s Filbert Street entrance. The Market won a $160,000 Art Place grant to redesign that part of the market, to make it more inviting â€” a project that might include outdoor tables, music, and different kinds of vendors.

Developer Charles Gallub asked Montgomery County officials to help fund a renovation project, turning an abandoned building at Johnson Street and Markley Street in Norristown, into a premiere movie studio. At the time, the county administrators were Jim Matthews, Joe Hoeffle, III and Bruce Castor. The county shelled more than $25 million in taxpayer, and state and federal loans. In 2010, the movie studio plan failed, and was redesigned into an office-retail complex. The building eventually went into foreclosure, and Gallub filed for bankruptcy. The County filed lawsuits against Gallub, in efforts to regain the loss. After much back and forth, Montgomery County will settle next week in federal court, for about 3 percent of what was given.

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