November 29, 2011
By Kristen Mosbrucker
for NewsWorks
About 40 residents attended a Northwest Neighbors meeting at Canaan Baptist Church in Germantown to discuss a new twist in the Queen Lane Apartments demolition plan.
The Philadelphia Housing Authority, which owns the apartment complex and adjacent Kelly Playground, plans to build 55 low-income apartments along the perimeter of the square. To do so, however, residents said PHA will have to demolish the existing playground.
They rallied against the fact that a city ordinance, which was sponsored by Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller and passed in April 2010, conveyed the $176,000 land on which the playground sits to PHA for $1.
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