Takeaway: Business and liquor license patterns reveal East Passyunk’s role as a concentrated dining and nightlife corridor.


Overview This project analyzes active business licenses and PLCB liquor licenses within the East Passyunk study area to characterize corridor-scale dining and nightlife activity using administrative data.


Key Outputs


Methods

  • Spatial filtering and joins to isolate licenses within the corridor
  • Classification of business and liquor license types
  • Descriptive aggregation and visualization of license composition
  • Memo design for corridor-level interpretation

Key Findings

  • Food and alcohol-related licenses cluster tightly along the East Passyunk corridor spine.
  • More found in memo2.pdf

Notes on Data The OpenDataPhilly business license GeoJSON is too large to store in the GitHub repo. To reproduce locally, download it from OpenDataPhilly and place it in the expected data/ path used in the Rmd.