Coinciding with the launch of Mayor Parker’s Market East advisory committee, chaired by Brandywine’s Jerry Sweeney, the Department of Planning and Development has been soliciting ideas from residents about how to improve Market East.

There are a lot of unsound ideas out there about Market East economic development that misunderstand the core problem. (Monday’s Axios Philly newsletter is just the latest entry in this series.) The main problem Market East has is the mismatch between the volume of commercial activity needed to fill in such a large street with shopping and offices and other commercial ventures, and the level of demand that exists today. There are a lot of different ways to approach closing this gap, but the commonality is that Market East just needs to bring in a lot

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