Save the Date: Day of the Dead Festival on 7th coming October 30

Save the date for the first annual Day of The Dead Festival:

---Saturday Oct 30th from 5pm to 9pm.

Come celebrate this traditional festival where we pay tribute to our ancestors.

There will be a haunted house, vendors selling cool stuff, palm readers and spiritual advisors all along the street. We will have a salsa tasting, music, and lots of great food from the restaurants on 7th Street! Come join us and have some scary fun!

If you are a vendor and would like to reserve a spot - call Sharon Smith at 610-433-5703.

MetroPCS coming to long-vacant space at 529 N. Seventh

The mobile phone provider metroPCS is opening a store at 529 N. Seventh, between Liberty and Allen Streets. The space has been vacant (with the occasional temp agency) for the eight years I've lived off Seventh---one of the last vacant storefronts left on the three-block stretch from the 400 to 600 blocks of Seventh.