DiCicco Was RIGHT!

The Rec Center under construction, April 2007.

Well over a year ago - February 13, 2007, to be precise - I noted on this blog that City Councilman Frank DiCicco had announced that the Recreation Center would be finished in March ("33 Days and Counting"). DiCicco's announcement was dutifully reported in the South Philly Review.

But March came and went, and the Center remained unfinished. It remained unfinished all the way through 2007 and into 2008. Now, however, it's been announced that the Center will officially open in less than 2 weeks - on April 12, 2008.

So it turns out that DiCicco was right after all!

Stupid, foolish me! I thought Dicicco meant March of 2007, when in fact in he must have meant March of 2008 - an entire year later.

You do have to admire such a politician. Such perspicacity! Such an uncanny ability to take the long view! So perceptive about how events will unfold in the future!

In the photo above, also from April 2007, you can see workers fabricating the sheet metal ribs that cover the roof. They came out on a Saturday to do this work, but then the completed pieces remained in the Rec Center for weeks before being installed on the roof.