Friends and family of Christopher Spence gathered outside Frankford’s T&T Bar in February 2011 after the 20-year-old was fatally shot there. Neighbors oppose the opening of grocery story on the site.  File photo/Shannon McDonald

In a community meeting at Aria Health-Frankford on Thursday, more than 30 residents came to voice their opposition to a zoning application for a grocery store at 4691 Hawthorne St., the former location of the T&T bar and the site of the 2011 murder of Chris Spence.

The opposition from the neighbors is based on the litter and loitering that inevitably come with a corner store, no matter how well run it may be.  They note there are as many as 16 grocery stores within a five-block radius of that location now.

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