Vandals won't find any planters to topple. They were ruined last year and have not yet been replaced by the city - at a $300,000 price tag.
And the trashed SEPTA bus shelter at Broad and Walnut, its glass broken and metal mangled, also has not been replaced.
That's very good news to Nancy Center, an owner of Robinson Luggage at 201 S. Broad, where looters wielded a metal pole from the bus shelter to smash windows, break into the store, and steal merchandise.
Although the store had shatterproof glass, one reveler grabbed the pole and hammered it until the glass broke. Insurance paid for the damage. Robinson Luggage declined to disclose the tab.
"It's a great city; we want the Phillies to win," said Center. "You can't let a couple people who got a little too excited ruin it for everybody else."
"We'll continue our normal course of business. We are not changing anything from what we did last year," she said. No extra staff or security in the store.
"We're not looking to put anyone in danger. The police were there, and that's their job. Our No. 1 priority is people's safety."
Next door, Greg Whiting at the restaurant Italian Bistro said he's "taking zero precautions. I hope they win it again because there's nothing better than another championship for the city."
Whiting said it took a few months to recover from the damage. Vandals ripped the neon signs from his glassed-in sidewalk café.
"They ruined the whole front facade of my greenhouse out on the sidewalk," Whiting said.
The damage to his place was $28,700, he said. "Luckily, we have insurance, and the insurance covered that. The city was actually gracious enough to cover our $1,000 deductible, which was very commendable."
