SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - Streeteries are here to stay. After first popping up during the pandemic, Philadelphia is making them permanent.
The city is unveiling its new outdoor dining program, meant to address concerns about allowing streeteries to take up public space.Good Dog Bar, on South 15th Street in Center City, has an expansive streetery.
The general manager says it was pivotal to their survival the last two years, but under new city streetery regulations, it can now only be in front of the restaurant."We’re not going to be allowed in front of the neighboring structure, even though the bank is 100 percent cool with us being out here," General Manager of Good Dog Bar, Jeff Kile, said.RELATED COVERAGE:It means Good Dog will only have about three tables in its streetery, which it invested a lot of money to build."We hired for this.
It’s a big thing. I’m gonna have to let a lot of people go, if we don’t get to keep this," Kile explained. "It’s gonna be…it’s gonna be tough."Streeteries can only be six feet wide, with no propane heaters.