PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - A North Philly business owner who recently recovered from COVID-19 saw his own store being burned on TV during the unrest throughout the city.
On Friday, he received a grant to help him rebuild.“When this happened, I kind of took it personal. You know, this is a community that I have been serving for the past years, and to have the community set my place on fire was really mentally detrimental to me,” he said.Kim’s tenant, beauty supply store Sun Play, was also left with no salvageable merchandise after riots.
He says that he spent decades building the property to establish the store. “I understood the reasons for the protest but I just - you know, setting a building on fire and setting your own community on fire was.