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Dear Elected Officials:
So many times we write you complaining about services in the
City. This is one time where it is a pleasure to congratulate
our elected officials on their good work in bringing income
(sales tax) and jobs into Philadelphia.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you very much for developing a compromise that will enable
Ikea to open its store in South Philadelphia. I realize that
you have many competing issues to deal with, but the highest
priority should be to make the city attractive to businesses,
large and small, and to make opening and running a business in
Philadelphia as easy and inexpensive as possible. Without
profitable, responsible businesses, and the jobs and revenues
they generate, the city has no future.

Giacomo DeAnnuntis

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank goodness for a bright decision to aid the future growth of
our city! I could not believe those who battled this effort not
only to bring a much needed ratable, but to control some of the
flight from the city to shop at decent stores. Keep them
coming...and keep them here, and not in King of Prussia or
Cherry Hill!

Next move should be as NJ does, an enterprise zone with a sales
tax benefit!

There is ample space along the waterfront for future growth.
Too much of that space belongs to empty buildings and storage
companies.

Kudos to you!!!

Dear Elected Officials:

See what can happen when responsible/caring people work
together. A deal gets done for the benefit of the community,
not for the personal glory of any one person.

Congratulations on working together. In the future every
politican can work together and put personal ambitions by the
wayside.

Dear Elected Officials:

Happy New Year!!!

JOB WELL DONE ON BRINGING IKEA TO SOUTH PHILA.!!!

THANKS

MELVIN H. WADE
COMMITTEEMAN 2W 14D

Dear Elected Officials:
Thank you for hard work in getting IKEA to Philly. What an
accomplishment. You should be very proud!
Sincerely,
Casey Clakre

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for doing what was necessary to bring Ikea to Philly.
We really need some useful stores for adults in the Center City
area. This is a great step in making our city better and able
to compete with places like King of Prussia and Marlton, NJ.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for bringing Ikea to Philadelphia. This is a great
opportunity to enhance our quality of life in a simple but
universally appealing way. My special thanks go to all of you
went the full distance to find a zoning/land use solution which
satisfied all parties. In working together for our common
benefit, you have shown the resourceful, can-do spirit of
Philadelphia.

Thank you,
Jennifer Hook

Dear Elected Officials:
Thanks for supporting the effort to get Ies and others to
open in Philadelphia.

Mark M. Mishkin

Dear Elected Officials:
Thank you for "making dreams come true". I often wish that good
public policy decisions such as bringing IKEA to Philadelphia
were easier to craft than this one. Putting the interests of
your constituents front and center in the end was a noble and
forthright decision.
Due to your successful and difficult negotiations we who live
in South Philadelphia will finally have access to retail
choices similar to those of our suburban counterparts. For
someone like me who enjoys home improvement projects I will
finally have another choice (Lowes) than that currently offered
only by Home Depot. And finally I will not have to travel out
to Plymouth Meeting to shop at IKEA.
Congratulations for putting your differences aside and
improving my quality of life in Philadelphia.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you, especially Councilman DiCicco, for
doing the work necessary to bring Ikea to Philadelphia. Retailers like this
are good assets for the city as people will come from all over the region to shop
here and the city will benefit not only from their IKEA purchases, but from
whatever other purchases they make while in town.

This is a good deal and it
seems to benefit all involved. I appreciate your work to bring quality retail
to the city of Philadelphia.

Dear Elected Officials:

I was very pleased to learn this morning that all the relevant
parties were able to broker a deal that will bring Ikea and its
other retail partners to South Philadelphia.

These jobs will be important to the community. The tax revenue
will be good, too. And, of course, the fact that we'll now have
suburban-class shopping right !here in South Philly, within
spitting distance of all those affluent Center City residents One
more good reason to live on the South Side!

Thanks again.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you to demonstrating your ability to do what is in the
best interest of the City and its citizens. Continued
development of the River community will be an asset to residents
in CC and South Philly and will cut down on the ever growing
burb surge that drives so many of us away from city life for
conveniences not open to us.

Your efforts are appreciated

Patrick Herron

Dear Elected Officials:

I applaud the last minute decision to "bring home the bacon", as
Ed Goppelt put it, rather than focusing narrowly on bringing home
the pork. While I couldn't imagine any other rational decision
regarding the Ikea deal, rationality has not always been the best
predictor of action in the City.

I hope some of the good sense, some of the concern for the future
of Philadelphia in the near and far term, will extend to other
issues like the Convention Center.

With thanks and holiday hopes for more good sense, and best
regards from a voter,

Cordially,

--david williams

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for your great work and commitment to bring Ikea and
space for Lowes to South Philadelphia. It is immensely
important that we continue to create more jobs and business that
compete well with what is offered in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

I continue to be very positive about the outlook for our great
city.

Have a wonderful holiday season!

David F. Huting

Dear Elected Officials:
Thank you for listening to your constituents who urged you to
bring IKEA to Philly which will bring jobs, taxes and shopping to
our beleaguered city.
Now bring us community access TV and we will show you what real
democracy can do, just as Hallwatch does for you and us, and you
then can have pride in representing the people of Philadelphia and
not the corporate world that buys politicians.
Thanks again.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for your role in bringing about the zoning change
needed to bring Ikea to Philadelphia. The port has ample other
room for expansion when and if it is able to attract more
manufacturing businesses and other port users. In the meantime,
it is important for us to provide the retail opportunities which
will create jobs and tax revenues in the City rather than the
suburbs.

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for working for the good of Philadelphia!
Bringing Ikea to South Philadelphia means more jobs, more
shoppers, and more business coming into the city. It is a Win!
Win! situation.

Bernie Goldstein

Dear Elected Officials:

Thank you for making the right choice by electing to bring Ikea
to Philadelphia. Let's keep doing everything we can to stop
people's flight to Plymouth Meeting and King of Prussia.

Thank you for your hard work on this issue.

Dear Elected Officials:
Thank you for doing whats right for this city. Please continue
to work at improving the city.

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