JBizznass t1_j2a6ym3 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 7:34 PM

Ffs! The best the city can do for a prime corner property on one of its main streets in its business district if a fucking thrift store and low end health care facility steps away from some of the best hospitals and doctors in the country. Shameful.

ColdJay64 OP t1_j2ahzpg wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:45 PM

Are you familiar with this organization? I was not, but from my initial research I don’t think it’s bad: https://outofthecloset.org, https://www.aidshealth.org

Thrift stores can be good retail additions, look at Buffalo Exchange and 2nd Street on Chestnut. I have no idea if the $3mill they paid for this location is good or not since I’m not sure what it was listed for, but I don’t see how free healthcare is bad when the other institutions in the city are not (to my knowledge). It’s not like it’s a safe injection site.

To clarify, I promise I’m not blindly endorsing - just don’t see what’s so bad since they are buying the place.

HoagiesDad t1_j2adzia wrote on December 30, 2022 at 8:19 PM

Not to mention there are already two different health care centers which specialize in HIV care that are only a few blocks away. I’d rather see it become a Burger King.

_jeremybearimy_ t1_j2aui7j wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:07 PM

Out of the Closet is a fantastic org.

justasque t1_j2bg5xm wrote on December 31, 2022 at 12:38 AM

I’ve always gotten blessed by the thrifting gods at the west coast Out of the Closet locations. I will be pleased to add this to my center city shopping destination list. And goodness knows there are a whole lot of decent second hand clothes out there, and a whole lot of people like me who seek them out, so it will be nice to have this as another place to shop for them.

_jeremybearimy_ t1_j2bjgrb wrote on December 31, 2022 at 1:02 AM

Yeah! I moved here from the west coast and there are so few thrift stores around here. The more the merrier

ell0bo t1_j2daxbz wrote on December 31, 2022 at 11:52 AM

Right there on that block is a minute clinic, Rite aid, and a dentist. If you think of it as healthcare for the less affluent that are still fucking, it makes sense. There's no retail on that side of market anyway, not until really almost 10th now anyway.