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City controller survey shows businesses feel they’re not getting enough info for the pope’s visit

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Sep 02 2015  ·  11:23 am
Sep 02 2015  ·  11:23 am
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  • In This Story

    • The ‘AMOR’ statue Philly borrowed for Pope Francis’ visit is staying here permanently
    • A couple guys who own a suburban car dealership bought the Pope’s Fiat for $82K
    • The Fiat that Pope Francis used in Philly will be auctioned off at the Philadelphia Auto Show
    • Why Philly taxpayers got stuck with an $8 million Pope Francis bill
    • Despite assurances otherwise, city will pay $8M to cover Papal visit costs
    • Secret Service says people went through metal detectors 1.1 million times to see the pope the 2 days of his visit
    • Papal visit SEPTA figures are in: Overtime costs topped $2.3M and ridership was down 5% in September
    • Thanks, Pope Francis: Cosi is blaming the pope for a decline in sales nationwide
    • Pope in Philly hotel take: Up to 180 percent rate hike led to profit on fewer rooms
    • Controller: 84% of surveyed businesses are behind on projections because of Papal visit weekend
    • Prayers blessed by the Pope at the Knotted Grotto will have new life as housing insulation
    • The National Guard’s estimate for pope mass attendance is 860,000
    • Archbishop Charles Chaput says 900K people were at the pope’s Parkway mass
    • There’s a 10AM closing ceremony at the Knotted Grotto
    • Tourism expert: If Philly wants to capitalize on the pope visit, businesses need to start bragging about hosting him
    • SEPTA’s costs for the Papal visit totaled about $1.6M, and that’s way higher than they budgeted for
    • Gawker: ‘A sight no one had ever seen in Philadelphia before — a large group of people being generally chill’
    • Nutter to restaurateurs: Sorry you didn’t see enough pilgrims ‘to sell all your pecan crusted salmon with basmati rice’
    • Now that the pope’s come and gone, suburbs want to know who’s going to recoup them for all their overtime expenses
    • The Key, the Concourse, all of the paving: The post-Pope Francis city improvements
    • Suburbs to state and World Meeting of Families: Please pay us for all that Pope stuff
    • Ed Rendell blames Nutter and Secret Service for pope visit probs: ‘They kept the crowds and the economic impact down’
    • The Archdiocese of New York wins the Pope Francis screengrab contest
    • Your afternoon video break: Stephen Colbert on Pope Francis merchandise
    • City Controller on the Papal visit: Good for hotels, but bad for other small businesses
    • Critics ask why the ex-Philly-archbishop who allegedly sheltered clergy accused of sex abuse was at Francis’ mass
    • Anonymous National Guardsman on Pope Francis duty: Free food, dog duty and the ‘glories of Wawa’
    • D.C. publication says D.C. did a better job of hosting the pope than us (even though only 2K people saw him there)
    • More businesses open up about the papal visit: ‘The worst Friday I’ve had’
    • That 800K crowd-size estimate for the Parkway mass? One crowd-size expert says it was no more than 142,000

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    Strip mall. SEPTA bus. PECO ad. So why does this pic look like a scene from a movie somehow?

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