• Safety Guide for Businesses  (crime prevention tips)
• Be a Good Business Neighbor Flyer (property maintenance guide)
• Nuisance Business Law flyers (Nuisance Business Law (Spanish, Mandarin, English, and Korean)
• Registry for minority, women, and disabled-owned businesses
• Health Department, Food related business rules
• Info about the property (zoning, property value, RE taxes, etc.)
• Register as a minority/woman–owned business
• PHL TCB program  (corridor cleaning)

• Commerce Department,  Business Services Manager
• Corridor manager
• Entrepreneur Works
• Community First Fund
• SCORE Philadelphia
• The Enterprise Center
• Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians
• Women’s Business Enterprise Center
• The Business Center (NW Phila)
• Women’s Opportunities Resource Center (WORC)
• Temple Small Business Development Center

3. Philadelphia laws:

Nuisance Business Law:

• Flyers: (Spanish, Mandarin, English, and Korean)
• Definition: Any behavior that interferes with the health, safety, and welfare of the
  community, 3 or more separate days within sixty days or 7 within 12 months:
• Examples:
  • Litter on sidewalks, vehicles parked on sidewalk
  • Gambling, Loitering, Prostitution
  • Public urination or defecation
  • Illegal drug activity or consumption of alcoholic beverages
  • Unlawful street or sidewalk obstruction
  • Off street parking spaces used for open storage, sale, or rental of goods,
    or storage of inoperable vehicles

Trash:

• (Litter Index Report w/ mapping).  Streets Dept. sweeping on your corridor?
• Streets Dept. – did they install surveillance cameras for illegal dumping?
• 84 litter enforcement Corridors with higher fines
• Police Dept. has Environmental Crimes unit for illegal dumping
• Zero Waste – Comprehensive Plan and Annual Reports
• Zoning (Title 14).  Does the use/building comply with Zoning?
• Health code (Title 6).  Are there violations?
• Fire safety (subcode F of the building code).  Are there violations?
• Licenses (Title 9, Regulation of business, trades, professions).  Are all licenses in place and up to date?
• Windows and Doors Ordinance (can’t be boarded up in occupied blocks)
• Taxes.  (Real estate, U and O, Bus Priv).  Are they delinquent?
• Title 10.  Includes Signs, Loitering, Prostitution, Sidewalk Behavior, etc.
• Building codes (Title 4)  Property Maintenance Code.  Special Controls for Commercial Corridors,  Zero Graffiti Zones, etc.

Enforcement:

• Licenses and Inspection – 311 System
• Police
• Code & Public Nuisance Litigation Unit, Law Department
  • Kristin Bray, Chief Deputy City Solicitor, (215) 683-5408, kristin.bray@phila.gov

State laws:

• Liquor control – 4 ways to close nuisance establishments
• No sales to minors, after hours, drugs, loud music
• Enforcement:
  • State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement

• COVID Relief Fund
• Paycheck Protection Program
• Hospitality Injury Recovery Program (CHIRP)
• Tax Relief because of COVID
• Refund of U&O because of COVID
• Storefront Improvement Program
• Commerce Dept. InStore Forgivable Loan Program
• Business Security Camera Program (Commerce SafeCam Program)
• KIVA loans (0%)
• Fair Chance Hiring Program
• PIDC loans and grants
• Empowerment Zones
• Keystone Innovation Zones (KIZs)
• Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZs)
• Restaurant Revitalization Fund (SBA)
• The Merchant’s Fund
• Business financial support applications | Department of Commerce | City of Philadelphia