However, zoning might prevent it from being a given. That’s the scenario playing out now at 16th and Washington, where Hoa Binh Plaza, or “Peace Plaza,” has housed southeast Asian businesses since it opened in 1990. As in several areas of the city, Streamline’s plans to raze the supermarket, bakery, and restaurant and construct two rows of townhouses, a handful of duplexes, and two multi-unit buildings seems to be a familiar turn of events with an inevitable outcome. The older businesses are noisy and often unsightly–not a harmonious mix for the residents of the new townhouses.Īnd converting to residential not only affects those parcels being developed, but also draws the requisite cafes and shops catering to the new residents, which ultimately pushes out existing small businesses. It’s driving up real estate prices and putting pressure on the long-standing businesses like the building supply stores and auto repair shops that line the avenue.
The next wave is now arriving, as the hot neighborhoods of Point Breeze to the south, Graduate Hospital to the north, and East Passyunk and Bella Vista are expanding and butting up against Washington Avenue. As the millennium approached, southeast Asian immigrant communities arrived, finding commercial and residential properties that were cheaper and more plentiful than in Chinatown. Washington Avenue has seen numerous transformations, from its 19th century history as a manufacturing corridor, and then morphing into a mix of suppliers to the building trades in the second half of the 20th century.
“We’ve been forced into a dead end, passively waiting for the end.” Toan, the restaurant’s owner through a translator. “There hasn’t been anyone talking to us,” claimed Mr. While the property’s prospective buyer, Philly-based developer Streamline, eventually revealed its plans to build a large block of townhouses there, the business owners related how the current owners and the developer have kept them in the dark. The issue was the proposed razing of the small 90s-era strip mall at 16th Street and the likely demise of the long-standing Asian-American businesses there. Last night on Washington Avenue a multi-lingual, intergenerational crowd of about 60 people gathered in the back dining room of Huong Tram Restaurant in the Hoa Binh Plaza, intent of making themselves heard by their City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson. That could change soon if local real estate developer Streamline moves forward with plans to raze the shopping complex for a collection of town houses, duplexes, and apartment units. This was also the first time the citrus of the two varieties cultivated in Hoa Binh had been officially exported to the UK.Hoa Binh Plaza, or “Peace Plaza,” at 16th Street and Washington Avenue has been a fixture of the Vietnamese and Cambodian communities west of of Broad Street since 1990. In February, Longdan, the biggest importer of Vietnamese goods in the UK, also purchased over 5 tons of the red-flesh pomelo farmed in Tan Lac district and 11 tons of the Dien pomelo farmed in Yen Thuy district of Hoa Binh province. It is also distributed to other local wholesalers and retailers of Asian products. The fruit is sold at the Longdan supermarket chain in London and some other cities in the UK. The nearly 7 tons of Cao Phong orange, exported via the official channel by the Hoa Binh-based RYB Joint Stock Company, met strict quality, food safety, and origin standards, including passing the testing for nearly 900 chemical elements in plant protection products.
This marks the return of this specialty to the global market after over 40 years. Cao Phong oranges from the northern province of Hoa Binh are now officially put up for sale in the UK.
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