"What do you think of the Italian Festival leaving your Council district for the Outer Harbor," I asked Delaware Councilman Joel Feroleto, who, by the way, lives close enough to Hertel Avenue that he could walk to the festival all these years. "It's bittersweet," Feroleto responded, echoing comments made earlier Tuesday by members of the Hertel Business Association.

Some district residents who liked to walk to the Hertel festival are unhappy about it, but district residents who couldn't park on their own streets during the festival don't mind it will be moving, he said. Similarly, some Hertel businesses that benefited from the festival are sorry to see it go, but those whose businesses dropped so much during the festival that they ended up closing for vacation during the event, don't mind the new venue.