But William James, (photo) the bagpipe-playing mayor of Gloucester City, says his town plans an attraction that will turn Philly emerald with envy: a whole Irish-themed village on the waterfront, a Dublin on the Delaware.
\”And that\’s no blarney,\” said James, who – like 42 percent of his 11,500 or so constituents – is of Irish ancestry.
Officials of the Camden County town hope to transform 23 city-owned properties along a 12-block stretch of King Street into a permanently and exuberantly Irish shopping district.
The village would house restaurants, pubs, bakeries, gift shops and other retailers in buildings with 19th-century-style facades. It would also offer Celtic entertainment and festivals with poetry readings and films, fiddlers and harpists. Plans call for docking a schooner at a nearby pier.
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