Joseph N. DiStefano’s PhillyDeals column runs in The Inquirer on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. He also writes the PhillyDeals blog, which you can read here.
- Planning new life for the ‘Lower Schuylkill’
PhillyDeals: It's one of the biggest middle-income developments planned for the city in recent memory. Monthly rents will start at $1,150 for a one-bedroom unit and $1,400 for two bedrooms.
David Unkovic, the bond lawyer appointed to keep cash-strapped Harrisburg city paying its bills, was summoned to a meeting with Stephen Aichele, then Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett’s general counsel, at the end of March.Should have been cozy. But no. Aichele previously headed the Philadelphia law firm Saul Ewing Remick & Saul. Unkovic had worked there, too. The agent for Harrisburg’s worried bondholders, Assured Guaranteed Municipal Corp., was represented by Saul Ewing lawyers — Aichele’s and Unkovic’s old colleagues. All so familiar.
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