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Article: The Water Ice Storm
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- Philadelphia Weekly
- Article date:
- June 6, 2007
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NEIGHBORHOODS
Rita's imminent arrival piques NoLibs purists.
Northern Liberties, long touted as the city's next great neighborhood, is getting a Starbucks coffee shop. And a Pottery Barn. Maybe even a Banana Republic, a Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop, a Restoration Hardware and a CVS pharmacy.
Well, none of those chain operations has formally announced plans to open in the burgeoning condo wonderland that was previously occupied by scrawny, bearded artists and their pierced and tattooed girlfriends.
But the Qnce-edgy 'hood is getting a Rita's water ice stand-the first national franchise business in the heart of the community-and some residents are saying the "Manayunkization" of Northern ...