Category: Business

$20 million project to transform upper Ogontz Avenue into Philadelphia’s “Gateway to the Northwest.”

karen dunaway
Apr 18 |23:27

Officials unveil$20 million “Gateway to the Northwest”

City, Cheltenham, SEPTA partnership will redevelop streetscape,transit station and mall

PHILADELPHIA – Ogontz AvenueRevitalization Corp. (OARC), Philadelphia’sleading community development corporation, along with state, city andCheltenham Township officials on April 7th unveiled a$20 million project to transform upper Ogontz Avenue into Philadelphia’s “Gateway tothe Northwest.”

Officialsoutlined three redevelopment plans – a new Ogontz Avenue streetscape from Middleton Street to80th Street, a redesigned SEPTA bus loop, additions to theCheltenham Mall and an expanded ShopRite, making it one of the largestsupermarkets in Pennsylvania.

The redevelopmentprojects reflect a “new and collaborative vision of Ogontz Avenue as a thriving,beautified commercial corridor leading to extensive retail shopping and businessservices as well as mass transit connections where everybody feels welcome”,said Jack Kitchen, President and CEO of OARC. The projects are expected tocreate more 400 permanent and temporary jobs.

The announcementcame at a news conference held at the intersections of Cheltenham and Ogontz Avenues, near a nuisance bar andshuttered check-cashing outlet that will be turned into office space withadjacent off-street parking.

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TEENS-GO-GREEN

karen dunaway
Apr 12 |00:54

Support our neighborhood teens in their new West Oak Lane Landscape business.  Services offered lawn maintenance, edging, annual beds, light tree work , mulching and  perennial beds.  Highly competitive rates

for more info contact

Skip or Misako (215) 877-7203

Sponsored by

Urban Tree Connection     Foundations, Inc    Martin Luther King High School

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Apple IPad’s Debut-Weekend Sales May Be Surpassing Estimates

karen dunaway
Apr 4 |23:41

By Connie Guglielmo

April 4 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is likely to sell more than twice as many iPads in its debut weekend than some analysts estimated, an early sign that Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs may succeed at reviving demand for table-style computers.

via: businessweek.com

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Entrepreneurs and Inventors,new company that is doing something rather unique online to help create success

karen dunaway
Feb 21 |18:49


Yak About It:  is a new site that just came out a couple months back that allows

CONSUMERS to become active participants in the success of new products being
launched, NOT by big companies, but EXCLUSIVELY small businesses, and
individual entrepreneurs and inventors.

“YAK ABOUT IT will not carry products from companies other than independent
inventors or start-up entrepreneurs. Larger companies already have
successfully gained national distribution; furthermore, they have huge
marketing budgets to build awareness. Big companies are big because the
roadblocks have already been removed for them. Our goal is to help the
underdog.”

YAK ABOUT IT won’t feature products by inventors that have received
wide-spread placement in mass retail locations or any products that are
universally recognized by the majority of consumers. New, market-ready
inventions are all in random locations on the Internet or spread out in
mostly smaller, niche retail stores. YAK ABOUT IT’s mission is to get new
products noticed. Now inventors and start-up entrepreneurs’ new, innovative
or exciting products can be found in one central place – YAK ABOUT IT. It is
one spot that ensure s that previously unknown products of yesterday become
popular products of the future. YAK ABOUT IT’s goal is to remove the
roadblocks of fighting for retail shelf space and lack of awareness of a new
product/invention.

And the general population is now able to have a hand in making a new
product/invention a success. Every week two products you’ve probably never
seen before compete for your votes, purchases, attention, and the title Most
Yakable. After each day or each week’s sales, the best selling product in
the previous competition is tabulated and offered up for sale as the MOST
YAKABLE.

via: YakAboutIt.com

 

CLEAR WiMAX Comes To Philly!

algie
Jan 20 |03:55

If you live in Philadelphia, you’ll be happy to hear that there’s a new ISP in town. And I’m not talking about just any type of Internet connection. I’m talking about WiMAX . It’s called CLEAR by Clearwire and its launch makes Philadelphia the “Fastest Unwired City in the NE”. That’s a pretty hefty claim that I’ll have to put to the test later. CLEAR isn’t the first WiMAX provider in the United States – Sprint launched WiMAX under their XOHM brand name in Baltimore last October, and other providers have been helping businesses with WiMAX coverage in major cities as well. But for Philadelphians, CLEAR is the currently the only consumer choice when it comes to WiMAX, and considering that providers like Verizon have much slower 3G data plans with 5GB monthly download caps that cost about the same, CLEAR is starting to look pretty good.

contact Karen Dunaway clear@mamimedia.com to get CLEAR WiMAX

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