Results, as of March 16 2013, of the CRCA 5901 Ridge Ave. Survey

On March 11, 2013, Central Roxborough Civic Association put out a survey to get public opinion on putting Fast Food at 5901 Ridge Avenue.

As of March 16, 2013, 576 people had responded.

To the core questions, "Do you approve of having a Wendy's at 5901 Ridge Ave?" and "Do you approve of a fast food restaurant at 5901 Ridge Ave?" the answers were clear.

?	Yes	No
Wendy's	123 (21%)	453 (79%)
Fast Food	126 (22%)	445 (78%)

See the Complete Results PDF Observent readers may notice that pages 9 and 11 are missing. Page 9 had some statistics about the comments (all listed below) and page 11 had info on who left email information.

387 people left comments. They are listed below in all their un-edited glory!

• 1st floor commercial that may include a restuarant and upper floors residential. Building front on front property line with parking under or behind the building.
• a beautiful old home
• A bookstore, a food store, a sit-down restaurant
• A business that actually supports the neighborhood. Can the City or State help the Manayunk/Roxoborough Food Cooperative? How about a small movie theater, much like the County Theater in Doylestown or Ambler? I think having ANOTHER food place on Ridge is an easy way for the developers to get money.
• A community park would be a nice idea, honestly, a panera bread sounds alright, anything but another fast food chain.
• A coop would be great!
• Add some vibrancy to the neighborhood. Wendy's is just a lazy uninspired option. It's an example of a developer being scared to overachieve. Mediocracy at its finest.
• A diner, a market, a coffee shop
• Adult eat-in restaurants (i.e. Panera's, etc.) Takeout is ok, if eat-in is the primary business. Other retail (but NOT drug or dollar stores) might be ok; non-chain preferred. Or offices. Bldg design must fit the neighborhood.
• A family restaurant would be really nice.
• A farmer's market
• A farmer's market, or businesses with Condo's as was mentioned above.
• A food co-op
• a food cooperative
• A Food Co-Op or Organic Grocery Store
• A food co-op was the best idea I heard so far.
• A food co-op would be great or a panera bread. A place where people can casually get together to talk and eat
• A food or commercial establishment that adds class and value to the neighborhood, not one that turns Roxborough into ""just another 'burb""
• A GOOD bakery (Le Bus store?)
• a healthy alternative to fast food
• A healthy food option
• A healthy food restaurant, not another unhealthy option like Wendy's.
• A healthy restaurant or mixed use property with store front/business on the ground level & apartments. Something that won't negatively affect the already congested traffic on Ridge Ave.
• A hip bar or brew pub like Iron Hill.
• a historic building
• A locally owned business, restaurant or other commercial buisines. Not a chain.
• alot of praying. no matter what is erected at this site, it is not gonna be good for this neighborhood. you are seriously beginning to see the end of the road. amazing the politicians in this neighborhood have yet to speak out...
• a market (trader joes, whole foods)
• A mom & pop store/restaurant
• an expansion of Kendrick Rec Center
• a NICE restaurant that isnt a pub pizza place or other fast food
• A nicer restaurant.. maybe a local establishment or at least a nicer such as panera or a trader joes. I would vote for something more original but definately not fast food. We want to build up the neighborhood. Not bring it down.
• a nicer restaurant. too many take out and fast food type restaurants. like to see a family nicer place
• an outlet for natural food -- groceries and/or prepared foods -- or middle eastern or indian
• Anthing is better then the crumbling old building that was there. The more new development on the Ridge the better.
• An unbiased survey woulld have been nuce.
• Any non chain business owned and run by a local resident.
• Any proposed building needs to maintain building access along the street with parking in the rear. It is a shame that zoning along Ridge permits a drive through- aren't we trying to encourage pedestrian oriented development?
• any retail that's not represented on that stretch of Ridge
• Anything but a major chain.
• Anything but fast food
• Anything but fast food, more specifically a fast food restaurant with a drive through. I would not be opposed to a healthy eating option, such as a Panera. However, in order to remain true to the community and local feel, I believe any generic/fast food option would take away from local businesses. Ideally, I would love to see the land utilized by one of our local business owners. (Think pierogie kitchen, the Henry James, Maria's, Roma's (pizza and the bakery), etc. a fast food restaurant would take away from the character that is our neighborhood and the local business owners who support our neighborhood.
• Anything but fast food would be an improvement.
• Anything but Wendy's!!
• Anything EXCEPT another bank or pizza parlor.
• anything local, healthy, and positive for the neighborhood
• anything other then fast food is better
• a park
• A Park
• a park for seniors!
• apartment building with double parking spacces
• A play/park space with cafe/ restaurant similar to the Sister Cities Park with adjoining Cafe by the B. Franklin parkway
• Approve of question 8
• A private business (not chain or franchise) or residence.
• Arby's
• A recreation of the Bunting House, or a nice small office building
• art gallery, coffee shop, good restaurant (3-4 star)
• A salon or a dog park
• As a ""yupie"" who moved back to Rox from Center City to start a family, I think we need to use this as a continued opportunity to revitalize this neighborhood. My disposal income goes to Main Street -- when I really want it to goto Ridge Ave. The Foodery is the first place on Ridge which is getting my dollars. A fast food restaurant will negatively impact traffic (I drive there every morning), and cause possible loitering and negative impacts to the surrounding community (gathering place for trouble, teens and late night shenanigans). I advise to make this decision on the basis of ""would a mother walk here with her child in a stroller and be comfortable and safe""). Consider more family friendly, and if food - healthy and more refined environments (not asking for upscale). This decision will set the stage for future decisions made on Rox - I feel it. Ideas (I know nothing about space and zoning): MARKETS - Trader Joe's, Whole Foods; RESTAURANT STYLES - Panera, Harvest, PF Changs; RETAIL - Charming Charlie's, Urban Outfitters MIXED USE - Boutiques with Class A office space and incentivize a modern, high growth company to bring jobs.
• ask peen or jefferson for medical use they like to compet
• A trendy bar/grill targeting family's and young professionals
• A victorian building with commercial on the first floor and residential above.
• A Wendy's
• Bank, Shopping Mall, Condo's, Sit down restaurant, something that would enhance the family atmosphere...Not hinder it.
• Bigger roadway to house all the ridiculously extra traffic that overdevelopment has caused.
• Bookstore
• Boutique shops; Food co-op
• Bryn And Dane's (healthy/local fast food franchise)
• Build a free clinic for residents
• Businesses that fit the RDC plan for The Ridge to transform the business corridor into a shopping and dining destination.
• Business offices meaning stop jumping at the first business proposal for nail, hair saloons and look to the future on Ridge. There are plenty of commercial lots for Wendy's - Ivy Ridge or Andorra Shopping Center
• BYO restaurant (would be great in area with opening of foodery), food coop, brunch spot. Food coops/farmer markets might have failed in past, but the public's opinion on food has changed drastically in the past 5 years.
• Café, nice restaurant, business or shop
• cafe similar to couch tomato to increase foot traffic - serves lunch and dinner, brunch on weekends
• Cafe style restaurant and offices
• chick fil a
• Chick-fil-a, a toddler/baby play place
• Chipotle
• Coffee shop with drive through
• Commercial with smaller storefronts for lease
• community center
• Community center
• Community center for kids, Health Food Store?
• Community food coop supporting local farmers.
• community park
• CONDOMINIUMS
• Condos
• Continue the excellent effort at rejuvenating the Ridge.
• Co-op, book store, cafe, wellness center, etc
• Co-Op grocery store, trader joe's, or a corner bakery style restaurant.
• Co-op/health food grocery
• co-op, residential with retail below per previous plan
• co-op; urban garden; park
• Corner bakery by maggianos, cosi, or panera but believ a new Wendy's with a modern feel wouldn't look bad. I supportively any business that looks nice and maintains themselves
• Create office space for small businesses, maybe more startup friendly. Make it attractive to put an office there.
• Day care, doctor's office, health store.
• Development similiar to the Starbucks, sherwin williams strip
• dog park
• Dog Park
• Don't tear it down.
• Drive-through Starbucks... they have drive-through stores across the country and likely lose a lot of business since the current location a few blocks away does not. Then you can open a Panera Bread or Corner Bakery where the current Starbucks is! The issue is, it's going to be tough for a private investor to raise the capital to build a building and run a lucrative business at 5901 whereas large corporations like Wendy's and McDonald's do it all the time and have the infrastructure to support it.
• Drive thru fast food restaurant would be nice on our end, not having to drive over to City Avenue or up to Andorra
• eat-in family style dinning
• either a business or a nice restaurant
• Either mixed-use or residential only.
• either residential or a trader joes or co-op -- something positive
• Elevation Burger
• family friendly restaurant gathering place
• Family restaurant, good for kids, seniors. Golden Corral
• Family restaurant no drive thru/ Medical
• family sitdown restaurant
• Family, sit-down restaurant with Outdoor seating. A place I can take my kids and family out to a nice dinner. There is no nice Restaurant on Ridge Avenue that caters to small children.
• farmer's market
• Farmer's market
• Farmer's Market
• farmers market; sit down restaurants, cafe, qudobo/chipoltle
• Farmers Market would be great!!
• Fast Food
• Fast food is one of the few businesses which will work for that location. It's too small for anything else and Wendy's or any other fast food will maintain the property.
• Fast Food would be awesome!
• fine dining establishment or other business; no residential projects
• first floor business with residential above, also design the building so that it flows with the architecture of roxborough, please dont waste that area on a fast food restaurant.
• food co-op
• Food coop
• Food co op
• Food Coop
• Food Co-op
• Food Co-op.
• Food Co-Op
• Food co-op, bookstore. If it has to be ""fast food"", can it be something more upscale, like Panera or Bryn & Dane's?
• Food co-op, brew pub, family style restaurant, mixed use,
• Food COOP, Brewpub, local restaurant like Trolley Car where they have a garden outside that is used to grow vegetables and herbs for the food prepared inside. Sustainable and green.
• Food coop , coffee cafe produce store
• food co-op, mixed use retail & residential, restaurant (not fast food), cafe.
• food co-op or independent BYOB restaurant
• Food Co-op. Residential.
• Food co-op, restaurant, chipotle if must be chain
• Food is great -- especially a healthier option.
• for the love of God, this is Roxborough. Even Chestnut Hill has a McDonalds.
• Fresh food, produce
• German Beer Garden like Frankford Hall or an upscale small cafe with outdoor seating--lower Ridge Ave needs nicer restaurants and shops. It is getting pretty gross down there. We need to bring it some class!!
• Get Rite Aid to demolish the existing building-strip next door and build new strip of stores that front on the sidewalk and with parking in the rear.
• Go ahead with Wendy's
• Good BYO
• gormet grocery (trader joes)
• grocery market - trader joes
• Health food or Co-Op store, book store, playground, something pedestrian friendly & healthy that would improve quality of life. No more fast food take out or hair & tanning salons. certainly no drive through!!!!
• Healthy convenient food, small or chain. Trader joes would be awesome, but site is probably too small
• Healthy food like a co-op, or a micro brew type restaurant
• healthy food option. Cafe. bakery. shopping. Take out if it's health oriented.
• healthy grocer or healthy dining option,
• Healthy options, sit down
• Heathy food, trader joes, whole foods etc.
• High density residential (apartments/condos). First floor commercial.
• higher end retail.
• high quality family restaurant; Pei Wei, Panera Bread, et...
• Homes built in the style of the bunting house.
• Homes or an Apartment Building.
• Housing only
• housing- to keep the scale of the neighborhood intact.
• how about a dog park...or a playground
• http://www.yelp.com/biz/liberties-walk-philadelphia
• i don't see the problem with putting a fast food restaurant here. Other than traffic problems i don't see an issue with this if its the fact that the food is unhealthy then dont go there? Don't get me wrong I was not a fan of the bunting house getting torn down either that was a beautiful building but separate of that i dont see a problem with this proposed use at all. Many businesses on ridge ave are failing and there is heavy competition for pizza and similar businesses so it will be very hard to attract another business in such a bad business climate in an area of intense competition and many other failed businesses
• If not Wendy's, chipotle, they use green buildings and the food is pretty good and better for you.
• If not wendy then bob evans or a KFC
• if you are going with fast food, five guys would be great
• i have no input
• Individually/family owned business
• I realize there are objections based on the health issues of fast food, but the reality is you can't manage zoning that way. Either you allow restaurants or you don't. It's wrong that the owners fought for the right to tear down a beautiful building under the premise of developing townhouses then decided to put up a Wendy's - ridiculous and wrong, but it's over and we lost. If you want to put in a business and it's legal, it's wrong to fight it on what that business entails. What if it's a competitor to a business down the street - do we have a right to squash competition just because we like the other businessowner? No. I know I'm a lonely voice in a crowd of outrage over fast food, I'm not a fan of fast food, but I don't think opposing it on that basis alone is right. I also don't like donuts, but I am not protesting Dunkin Donuts down the street.
• I suggest ground floor business such as a small business - a bakery. With residents on top.
• I suggest they rebuild the Bunting House.
• I support any small/family owned business.
• I think Roxborough can stand it. No worse than Wawa or Gary Barbara
• I think that Roxborough needs another fast food restaurant like Wendy's. We need something ther than pizza and steaks. A Panera would be great.
• I think the following are missing from our portion of Ridge ave: a sit down restaurant with good food, a nice bar or brew pub that is not a dive, and a variety of healthy take food restaurants. I would eat at fast food such as Chipotle, Boloco, Panera, Corner Bakery Cafe, Honeygrow. Why is it impossible to get a local restaurants it to open a restaurant here? If people want fast food, Steven Starr sells really good hamburger for $4.50 at Square Burger in Franklin Square.
• I think Wendy's is a great choice. They have healthy salads and their food is much better quality than McDonald's.
• I think whatever is built there should be zero lot-line like the stores between Martin and Lyceum with parking in the rear. If there is residential above, then there needs to be enough parking for residents, too. I would love to see a sit-down or at least non-fast food restaurant. There absolutely should NOT be a drive through at that dangerous location. If I had magical powers, I'd bring back the Bunting House, of course.
• It's a great location for the food coop
• it's not our business
• I was hoping for a Taco Bell....but Wendy's is good!
• I would find a legitimate non franchise restaurant with parking lot a nice addition, or perhaps more small business extending from the Rite Aid and Chinese restaurant shopping area.
• I would like to see a community owned fresh foods market at this location
• I would like to see a restaurant like the East Falls Tap room on Midvale in East Falls.
• I wouldn't have torn down the house! But that done, how about a nice storefront for a local business?
• I would strongly suggest a non-fast food restaurant (independent Indian, vegetarian, Italian, or any other cuisine with seated dining). An establishment such as that would attract more young, progressive, artistic Philadelphians to invest in Roxborough. Another fast food chain would contribute negatively to the perception that Roxborough is a strictly lower, middle class community, which would not encourage growth.
• Jimmy Johns, Boston Market, Fridays
• Keep the area growing in a positive manner. Bring in healthy quality establishments. In my opionion, Roxborough has the chance to become a warm, homely area like Chestnut Hill. Fast food restaurants will cheapen Roxborough and make it more like Germantown.
• Keep the Rox. highschool kids in check
• Large scale multi story mixed use. Parking in rear, frontage at sidewalk
• Law Office - Kelly Erb
• learning center
• Let them build a Wendy's
• Let the owners build what they want
• level it and grow Vegetables
• Local Businesses.
• Local businesses - food and mixed use.
• Local business or a healthier option for fast food
• Local business run by local people, no chains and no crap food... Philadelphia has an obesity epidemic, putting in a Wendy's is poisoning our people and their health. Any fast food should be banned from what was once the site of a historic and beautiful building torn down by greed.
• locally owned business, pref. retail
• Long John Silvers (no inexpensive seafood restaurant yet in the area)
• Make it a food co-op.
• Make it into a beautiful little garden for locals to enjoy
• Manayunk/Roxborough Co-op; dog park
• massage palor
• McDonalds
• McDonald's or chick-fil-a
• Medical facility, dentist office, insurance, real estate offices on first floor
• medical office suite
• Mixed use
• Mixed use and Retail developement (bike shop, computer store, furniture store) with building facade frontage on Ridge Avenue, parking in rear or other lots.
• Mixed use: apartments or offices above with retail or a restaurant below
• mixed use; like-kind construction; aligns with http://www.phila.gov/green/
• Mixed use retail
• Mixed use tastefully designed would be fine. A restaurant would be fine too, I just don't want garish or bright signage not a place that will attract loitering or produce litter.
• mixed use with residential above, get smaller, healthier, local businesses below
• Mixed use would be OK if there are no other options.
• mom and pop store, a garden center, small (10 unit or so) condo with parking underneath, outdoor park for rec center activities.
• mom and pop store, park for the rec center, small apartments/condos, Trader Joes, Garden center, Gym (not crossfit)
• More Mom and Pop shops and less franchises. Keep the stores local, unique and walkable.
• More parks.
• Movie tavern!
• Movie theater
• multiple use
• n/a
• natural food store ie Trader Joe's, Whole Foods
• Never should have torn down the Bunting House.
• Nice biased poll. Does Ridge *need* another restaurant? Not really, but one affordable to us poor white trashers who have lived here all our lives would be nice.
• No. 8 above is ideal
• NO FAST FOOD
• no fast food of any kind
• no more $459,000 townhouses!!!!!!!
• none
• None
• none in particular
• No Pizza places
• not another bank or cvs - maybe a real restaurant with parking.
• NOT FAST FOOD!
• NOT FAST FOOD. The country is getting fatter and fatter. We don't need anything else contributing.
• Nothing that would disturb the residences on the block or create unsafe traffic patterns near the school and already highly trafficed intersection
• Not Wendy's
• office building?
• offices (legal, medical, etc)
• Open-Ended Response
• open space, dog park
• Organic grocery
• organic grocery store or food co-op with deli
• Organic Restaurant
• panera
• panera bread
• Panera bread
• Panera Bread
• Panera Bread Co.
• Panera Bread, farmer's market, bakery, craft store, recreation center
• Panera Bread, krispy kreme
• Panera, non franchise restaurant
• Panera or Chipoltle
• Panera, Trader Joe's, Brew Pub, Gastropub
• Panera, Trader Joes or Food Co-op
• Panera trader joes saladworks.
• panera, whole foods, farmers market,
• Panerra, healthy eating option, trader joes
• park
• PARKING LOT
• parking lot for all the people that use the wreck center
• pedestrian friendly retail made out of brick or stone that holds the street frontage
• ping pong social club; teen activities;bingo hall;
• Place for kids/teenagers to hang out. Ardcade, skatinf rink
• Planet Fitness, Panera, Whole Foods, a mixed commercial space with nicer restaurants like we have on Main Street in Manayunk,
• Preferably some kind of cultural attraction but would be fine with decent residential housing or a decent sit-down restaurant
• pre-school, professional offices (especially medical)
• Produce Junction or something similar. A bakery would be nice as well.
• Produce market
• Professional building with adequate parking
• professional ofc bldg;non food retail space
• Professional Offices with upper residences (only with sufficient parking) or up-scale shopping - bookstore, boutique, deli, clothing store
• Put in the Wendy's, or some other chain. Anything else (read: local) will be out of business in a year, and the lot will be perpetually up for lease.
• Put the Bunting Building back up.
• Put the Bunting House back. Seriously, a multiple use building or small business building with that perhaps would match the facade of either the church across the street or The Rec located across Ridge diagonally. Something with very limited parking.
• Put the coop food market there.
• put the house back
• RDC recruit Rite Aid to be part of a block improvement plan; make it a little shopping/restaurant/resident multi-use with a restauant like In Riva (see in East Falls) on the corner with outdoor eating area in the back, with trees, creating a buffer for neighbors; parking behind what is now RiteAid. Consider changing direction of Gerhardt down to Houghton to access parking
• Recontructing tehBUnting House would be nice but a mixed use building that reflects the hisrtorically charming architecture is important
• Regular restaurant similar to Gil's or Maria's. store fronts and apartments. Farmers market.
• residential
• Residential or upper scale eatery, Panera, Trader Joes, Cosi
• residential, physician office space, legal office space
• Residential usage only
• Retail, office, locally-owned business, day-care,
• retail or residential or medical
• Retail storefront; green space
• Retail with a small park or community garden
• rezone residential and build nice homes
• See Question 8
• shoe store
• Should have left the Bunting House! Preserve our history...
• should of kept the house!
• Since the parcel borders residential neighborhoods, something that is not open past 10 PM - not fari to neighbors to have to deal with 1-2 AM or worse, all night
• sit down restaurant, bank, coffee shop, florist, retail shops,
• small business cafe
• Small business, like a flower shop, gift store
• small local business
• Something healthy and/or unique
• something healthy, maybe a Co-op or healthy market
• Something more healthy- Panera, Chipotle, Salad Works, etc.
• SOMETHING MORE UPSCALE THAN A WENDY'S! SOMETHING NOT UGLY.
• something similiar to Keenans
• Something that benefits community even if it is Wendy's.
• Something that brings in a better class of people and elevates the neighborhood, not lowers it.
• something that isn't open late at night
• something that will bring value to the neighborhood. Trader Joes, Panera, Cosi, Food Co-op, Produce Junction.
• Something upscale, something HEALTHY.
• speciality shop, eat-in restaurant, seasonal store
• Specialty meat and/or fish store
• Starbucks
• Stop distroying our neighborhood and ask the people
• Strip Club
• Taco Bell
• take out check cashing place smoke shops and clean up the ridge and keep the school kids OUT so people will come it is not a desination spot by no means
• Take the strip next to it and line it up with parking in front. The parking in back at the other new strip doesn't work1
• That which would draw a moderate or more amount of people regularly, and their returning. What is that? food oriented (a restaurant that is a nice dining experience is a draw, and maybe could have some chance?) What other type of business or center is needed in our area? that could also be appealing to Ridge Avenue commuters outside Rox? One would want the business to have a chance to make it, and stay permanently.
• The buildings torn down were large buildings, what we don't need is one floor buildings that are meant for strip malls and suburban areas. Buildings should be curb front entrances for parking if any should be through the side and back.
• The Bunting House
• The Bunting House should never have been demolished. Because it has been, I would mostly only support a community garden, a park, weavers way co-op, trader joes, whole foods, etc. places that attract a community-based type of people. Healthy living or establishment to progress the community.
• The busy Foodery proves Rox can handle more than junk food and takeout. I fun food-&-drinks place or a great ethnic eatery would be ideal.
• The form of the building is all that matters here. The questions on the survey are the wrong questions. Ridge Ave should have pedestrian-friendly frontages. As long as that is done, the use is not important. McDonald's has done some very nice walkable frontages; Wendy's can do it too.
• the new coop; any restaurant without a drive-thru (Panera's, for example); produce store
• the only option in Rox for fast food in McDonald's why should they have a monopoly, where's Wendy's & Burger King I think it's a great idea
• There are enough Diners, Asian take-outs, and pizza joints on the Ridge. I welcome a fastfood choice.
• TJ Maxx!
• Tobacco Shop / Cigar Lounge
• too many pizza/steak shops. andorra or allegheny ave are the closest fast food restaurants that are affordable with smaller children. also, this might supply the area with jobs for teens/young adults.
• trader joe, panera bread
• trader joes
• trader joe's!
• Trader joes
• Trader joe's
• Trader Joes
• Trader Joe's
• Trader Joe's, a book store, a yarn shop, a restaurant that is not fast food
• Trader Joe's, A Family Restaurant, Any Independent Business
• Trader Joes!!! but when I called they say they're not interested cause the area doesn't contain their typical customer base...that's crazy cause I work at Roxborough Hospital and everybody here thinks that would be a great spot. BTW...It's nasty to put a greasy fast food restaurant so near to a Hospital.
• Trader Joe's, food coop, Metropolitan Bakery
• Trader Joe's, food co-op. NO MORE Check cashing, cash for gold, taxes, or dollar stores!
• trader joes, food co-op, non fast food restaurant
• Trader Joes, Food Coop, Park, Mixed use (1st floor commercial, 2nd floor residential)
• Trader Joe's, Food Co-op, Retail
• Trader Joe's, Manayunk/Roxborough Co-op, walkable businesses that will add to my home's value (1 block away)
• trader joes,nice restaurant,bookstore
• Trader Joes or a nice big dog park!
• Trader Joe's or anything besides bank, nail salon, fast food.
• Trader joes or co op/farmer mkt
• Trader Joe's or other healthy food venue or a locally owned business
• Trader joes or sit down restaurant
• trader joe's or weaver's way
• Trader joe's or whole foods
• trader Joe's, produce store,
• Trader Joe's store
• traditional storefronts with housing or offices above, and parking in the rear.
• upgrade stores and resturants
• Upscale restaurants, less tanning salons, pizza places, hair salons
• Walkable street front commercial with residential above.
• Walmart
• Wawa or other convenience store
• weavers way co-op
• We certainly need jobs in Roxborough! Wendys can provide that! The other restaurants only provide employment for a few. And what all restaurant on ridge ave? Two chinese restaurants, papa johns, chicken. All different! Wendys would be a good business to add to our falling town. I have lived here all my life, 52 years. Everything is basically the same. We need to step into the 21st century. Neighbors are concerned with trash, solution: hire a retired person to keep up on it. Worried about the so called Roxborough kids, which we all knows they mean the black kids, lets face it!! Theyn have a cop there att the open and close of school, limit the entrance of students just like the other businesses do. The kids do not hang at any of the other places. Use your head people. This is good for our neighborhood.
• Wegmens
• WENDYS
• WENDY'S
• WENDY'S!!!!!
• Wendy's, Chick Filet, 5 Guys, Arby's, BK
• Wendy's, Panera, Chik-fil-a
• Wendy's, Red Lobster/ eat in/take out restaraunt
• Wendy's - We need another fast food place besides McDonald's
• We need to preserve and enahance the character of our neighborhood and there might be something worse than a fast-food restaurant but I don't know what it is.
• Whatever Fast food restaurant that may be built, is going to make some people upset. One concern that I agree with, is littering. There is 2 bus stops within a block of the proposed restaurant. We all know that after school, the kids like to get a snack. However, I dont believe most of them will walk an extra few step to properly dispose of this garbage It would be a good ""Peace maker"" for the new restaurant to donate trash and recycling containers to all the bus stops, and a set in between them as well.
• whatever it is design has to fit in neighborhood. no set-back strip centers with parking in front of bldg. suggestions:medical office bldg to compliment hospital, panera, mixed use
• whatever it turns out to be, it first and formost must be in keeping with the asthetics of ROXBOROUGH. Not cubes, not 20 properties to fill someone's poctkets. Change doesn't mean destroying our beautilful community. There are enough examples of the way we would like to keep Roxborough flourishing in the Review archives should anyone actually care to preserve what makes this part of town unique.
• Whatever the owner of the property wants to do.
• Whatever the owners want and that qualify under existing zoning. And an unbiased survey.
• Whatever the property owner wants that is within the zoning regulations is exactly what should go there.
• What suggestions do you have for 5901 Ridge?
• Whole foods
• Why not a Sonic or Panera. Wendy's is fine too
• would like residential as well as commercial on this site
• would love a wawa!
• Would not mind a sit down chain like Olive GArden or Panera Bread ""if"" they would build to street and provide some tyupe of exterior historic facade. I would also want to mandate curbside tress and shrubery with perhaps some outdoor sidewalk cafe tables. A place to walk and enjoy food on a spring summer or fall day.
• Yoga studio, natural foods store