Frankly Philadelphia: South Street's 30% Vacancy, West Chester's LLWS Heartbreaker

Frankly Philadelphia: Daily Philly News · Aug 25, 2026

Tuesday, August 25, 2026. Delco Frank starts with the West Chester kids, who lost a marathon Little League World Series classic Monday night, per Patch's West Chester coverage, then spends the morning arguing with South Street, where Billy Penn reports commercial vacancy has climbed to 30 percent, the highest in a generation, and the fight over what fills those windows runs through the zoning code. Plus WHYY News on Philadelphia researchers worried that proposed federal science funding changes could cost the city a generation of early-career scientists, and the Messi slap chatter the timeline…