For Danny Duk, the effort goes beyond picking up trash and drawing in new visitors. "I want Cambodian people to stay here, to open their businesses here. I don't want this community to break up because people decide to move away," he says. To that end, he's been offering his restaurant as a meeting place where neighbors and city representatives can talk and plan. And he spreads the word to everyone he knows, which is to say, everyone in this corner of South Philadelphia. He shows me a letter from the Cambodian embassy granting its blessing for the creation of an official Cambodia Town in Philadelphia, its imprimatur infusing him with energy.