City Paper offers a blistering indictment of Shawn Kelly, the man who has singlehandedly prevented the Apple Lofts project from coming to the empty Apple Storage facility in West Philly despite widespread neighborhood support. "On the surface, it sounds like your average gentrification battle," writes Ryan Briggs. "But look beyond the sparring neighbors, and a portrait of Philadelphia's sputtering old-time political machine comes into focus." [CP]
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