The Victorian redbrick Tacony Music Hall is an icon of this working class riverfront community in the lower Northeast. The stately bulk of the building is breathtaking, standing out from its plainspoken neighbors on Longshore Avenue. Over the decades, the Tacony Music Hall has housed retail, a library, literary society, and community organizations, and its assembly hall hosted performances and public events. It has, of late, been a real estate office and home to Tacony Community Development Corporation.
Now in its third century of existence this historically-designated structure is slated for a unique new use. There are a lot of rumors swirling around the neighborhood about what that means exactly. Will it be a nightclub? We are completely against that all together. The new plans for the music hall have been quietly coming together for the past few months.
Now with a ZBA hearing scheduled and the community abuzz, PlanPhilly sat down with Deborah Rose Hinchey, one of the principal organizers behind the project, to talk about the future of the Tacony Music Hall.
I realized we had to get into the neighborhood and explain that we are not a swingers club or a sex club. The Tacony Music Hall will serve as a space for those who subscribe to the philosophy of sex positivity.
The community center slated for the Tacony Music Hall will hold movie nights, offer classes in different relationship practices, and parties that cater to a variety of alternative sexual communities. Sannutti and the Tacony Civic need not worry about crazed late night dance parties though.
