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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Brindle Cafe

Brindle Cafe a fair-trade, organic coffee and tea shop is planning to open their doors at 221 E. Girard Avenue.

They are going to be presenting their designs to the community at the Fishtown Zoning meeting.

Tuesday June 8th at 7pm.
In the Fishtown Recreation Center, 1020 East Montgomery Ave.

Brindle Cafe well be a great addition to the vibrant and growing East Girard Corridor. As they state on their website their "goal is to bring Philadelphia, the freshest and most delicious food and beverages influenced by their travels around the world, while striving to develop new ways to minimize our Eco-Footprint. "

The owners of the cafe are long time Fishtown residents who have been committed from the beginning to opening a in their own community.

You can find out more at
http://brindlecafe.com/index.html


Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Art For the Cash Poor

InLiquid is holding its Art For the Cash Poor festival (http://www.inliquid.com/features/aftcp11/) on June 12th - 13th.

The festival which takes place just off of Girard Avenue includes live music, Food Vendors such as Quince Fine Foods and Las Cazuelas, and lots of paricipating Philadelphia artists.

MUSIC

Saturday:

4:45 McRad
3:15 Chalk & the Beige Americans
1:45 Keystone Mountain Boys

Sunday:

4:45 North Lawrence Midnight Singers
3:15 The Josh & Pete Band
1:45 Knife Show

Monday, April 26, 2010

Girard Avenue Mugshot's CoffeeHouse and Cafe

Mugshot's CoffeeHouse & Cafe is opening their third location at 2831 W. Girard Avenue.
This as exciting development for the community that is only blocks away from the Philadelphia Zoo and a number of other major attractions.

Read City Papers Article
Read Metro's Article

Friday, February 19, 2010

Girard Coalition Helps Tiffin etc get $50,000 Grant


The Girard Coalition, Inc. helped the President of Tiffin Munish Narula get a $50,000 grant to help in the construction of a new restaurant Tiffin Pizza, etc. which will be located at 712 W Girard Avenue. The grant was presented by Mayor Nutter at a city wide event in which only ten recipients received funding support. The Selection of Tiffin Pizza, etc. for a grant shows how GCI is able to work with businesses to help them gain the support they need. If you are a business owner on Girard Avenue, or you plan to start a business on the corridor please contact us at info@girardcoalition.org to get the support you need.

The First Annual Fishtown Shad Fest