Woodland Avenue Business Association

New group of business owners in Finanta's SW PRECAPS program at Southwest CDC.

Fundraiser to support 12th District Youth Programs-Flea Market Saturday, June 11, 2016 at Kingsessing Recreation Center.

Restaurant and Food-related business owners--HACE has a workshop for you! On Thursday, June 9th at 9 AM, HACE is providing a workshop for small business owners focusing on how to have a profitable food service business. Workshop location will be at 2708-10 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19133. For more information and to RSVP contact HACE at 215.426.4990 or by email to [email protected]

SW Small Business owners--need to talk to a lawyer?? Upcoming FREE Small Business Legal Clinic through Philly VIP, on Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 5:15 PM to 7 PM at the Free Library on the Parkway. You MUST register in advance to meet with a lawyer for free. See the details attached below. For more information contact Alison Merrick at Philly VIP, 215.523.9565 or [email protected]

Update from Philadelphia Association for Community Development Corporations (PACDC) on the Philadelphia Land Bank: PACDC said--Exciting developments from the Philadelphia Land Bank: the first properties have moved through the Land Bank! The properties were first transferred into the Land Bank on December 9th and moved to Council and the Vacant Property Review Committee which both provided approval in mid-April. Then at the Land Bank Board meeting last Thursday, May 12th, th...ey were voted out in the final step of the process. They are expected to go to closing shortly. Both properties are intended to be used for new residential construction - one occupied by the applicant and the other part of a larger site assemblage. From beginning to end it took just 5 months compared to the previous process which generally took a year and a half, but often much longer. The Land Bank has also moved forward on acquiring properties. Since December 2015 more than 1,700 publicly owned properties have been approved for transfer into the Land Bank, including nearly all properties held by the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation. On May 12th the Board authorized the acquisition of the first set of properties to be pulled from Sheriff Sale using the Land Bank's new powers to acquire privately owned, tax delinquent properties. More properties are slated to be similarly acquired in the next few months. We applaud the dedicated Land Bank employees who have worked hard to make the Philadelphia Land Bank operational!