#PhillyFive Developing Stories: Nov. 20, 2014
Developing stories from overnight and this morning.
2) A big tract of prime beachfront sits empy in A.C. A large tract of mostly vacant land sits empty next to the Revel in Atlantic City's North Beach area. In any other shore town, outsiders from Pa. and N.Y. would be building $2M homes there. The reason why it is fallow is symptomatic of the town's dysfunction.
3) What would high-speed rail look like in Philly? Federal officials gave possible scenarios for future passenger rail service that ranged from not much of anything to a new high-speed rail corridor between Boston and Washington that would include Philadelphia.
4) Villanova biz student charged in Wis. sex assault. Vincent C. Paola, 20, of Berlin, N.J., allegedly assaulted a woman on July 23 in Milwaukee. The victim, who lives near Philadelphia, reported the assault to Radnor police two days later.
5) Plans for new hotel advance. The Planning Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend a bill that would allow a Hudson Hotel to be built at 17th and Chancellor streets in Center City.