Daily News | In South Philly, Gopuff neighbors seek relief on safety, sanitation, and quality-of-life issues
But near the center of South Philly, neighbors say they have had trouble coping with a car-based business in the increasingly residential neighborhood where Gopuff opened at a former grocery store site at 13th Street and Washington“Gopuff’s high-efficiency model has led them to treat our neighborhood as their playground,” disregarding “safety, sanitation, and quality of life,” saidAssociation members began raising traffic, parking, and trash concerns in 2022.
Frustrated, “we went to Councilman [Mark] Squilla,” said Adriana Akintobe, a civic association member and Democratic committeeperson who lives across the street. “He came himself to our second meeting [in August, via Zoom] with the company and said this needs to be fixed or it won’t be an appropriate site.
But the neighbors say incidents of careless driving have continued, and they worry about increased risk of car vs. pedestrian accidents as a, among other residential development in the area. On a visit to the site, an Inquirer reporter saw a driver swerve through an empty parking space to avoid the bump and exit up 13th Street, passing next to a steeply angled bollard that looked like it had been hit hard by a truck.
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