I don't know what the answer is. I think getting the history out, getting the word out [that] Frankford's the next place to be. I think in a year's time, there's going to be a big turnaround.

The history is immense down here. We're one year older than Germantown Avenue.

We had two businesses that were nice on the Avenue ? there was a cafe, then it switched to a framing shop, but she left. This is what the goal was, to get more antique dealers here to create a destination.

He bought two other buildings on Frankford Avenue, too. But it would be nice to have more developers here. There's a lot of opportunity here. We have old buildings where the architecture and the interiors are really interesting.

If history is an indicator, our performance throughout the state improves every year.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.