Inqlings: The Lane condo's for sale
The Washington Square condo of CBS3 exile Alycia Lane appears to be available for $1.35 million, double what she paid for it.
The Washington Square condo of CBS3 exile
Alycia Lane
appears to be available for $1.35 million, double what she paid for it.
Though no one involved in a potential sale - speculated on Tuesday on Phillygossip.com - would discuss or confirm it, here are new clues:
Four condos in Lane's building are listed for sale on the Web site of Allan Domb, the dominant Realtor in the Center City condo market. All listings provide the units' living space. One unit advertised on the site for $1.35 million has 1,936 square feet of space; Lane's condo is the only one of that size in the 26-unit building, according to city records.
Domb brokered the 2004 deal that put Lane in the spanking new condo for $675,000. Workers toiled for months to outfit it to Lane's specs before she moved in.
In other Lane news: CBS3 announced her firing Jan. 7 - two days before the ad deadline for Philadelphia Magazine's February issue. CBS3 and the mag have a partnership, and Lane and coanchor Larry Mendte usually turned up in print ads.
February's promo will feature morning anchors Ukee Washington and Liz Keptner. The new edition, due next week, will include a story about l'Affair Lane.
Radio activity
He dribbles, he shoots, he spins. No deal has been signed yet but 76ers guard
Louis Williams
is said to be close to lining up a side gig: part-time disc jockey on the Beat (WPHI, 100.3). Williams, 21, could start a Sunday shift on the hip-hop/R&B station as soon as Feb. 3. Radio runs in his family; stepfather
Mitch Faulkner
is a well-traveled radio exec who happens to be the voice of Beat sister station WPPZ (103.9).
Don't expect Wendy Williams back on Power 99 too soon. The popular New York-based afternooner has been off the air in Philadelphia for weeks because of contractual issues. She will change syndicates at the end of the month, as radio publication All Access reported. Sources said talks continue. Williams remains on Power's Web site.
Art Andrews, a newsman from WPEN in its standards format, this week joins WHAT (1340) with The Corner Table, a Saturday morning interview show at 9.
Be careful what you fight for
You don't want condos? You may get a strip club. Two years ago, the Whitman Council, which represents neighbors in deep-South Philly, successfully fought a New York developer's rezoning plan to convert an old warehouse on Oregon Avenue near Delaware Avenue into condos. All righty then. The developer, B&O Group Realty, then applied for a license for an "adult cabaret with dancing" - which would not necessarily require a zoning variance. The city Department of Licenses & Inspections approved the license, prompting an appeal from both the Whitman Council and the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, which wants a port use for the warehouse. A hearing set for yesterday was postponed to Feb. 13, though all parties are expected to sit down beforehand.
Briefly noted
Bucks County native
Michelle Grossman
of NBC affiliate WeatherPlus is the new NBC10 morning weekend weathercaster, says news director
Chris Blackman
. Start date: "later this month." Her predecessor,
Amy Freeze
, left for Chicago 11 months ago.
Alison Barshak of the eatery Alison at Blue Bell has chosen Alison Two as the name for her second restaurant, under construction for a spring opening in Fort Washington. She's blogging its creation at http://alisonatbluebell.wordpress.com.