Mill Creek, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Mill Creek is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located north of Market Street, south of Girard Avenue, between 44th and 52nd Streets. It is named for a creek which was sewered in the 1880s, although the water underneath the neighborhood continues to affect its residents as subsidence remains an issue. In 1961, the sewer collapsed, taking homes with it.
Mill Creek Apartments, a public housing project designed by Louis Kahn, was demolished in 2002 and replaced with Lucien Blackwell Homes. The three 17-story highrise project towers were replaced by suburban-style low-rise homes.
Mill Creek was the site of a 2000 incident, dubbed the "Lex Street Massacre," in which a drug dealing dispute resulted in seven deaths and three wounded, the worst killing spree in modern Philadelphia history.
[edit] External links
- PHA's Lucien Blackwell Homes
- Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice, City Planning and Design, Anne Whiston Spirn
- Tearing Down Louis Kahn, New York Times
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