Tag: Sharswood
Shoppers line up to welcome Sharswood’s first supermarket in decades
The new North Philly supermarket is part of a sweeping neighborhood revitalization plan dreamed up by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
2 years ago
Made by North Philly residents, monuments to local heroes put Black history on display
“Bad” Bennie Briscoe, a sanitation worker turned champion boxer, is one of the North Philly icons memorialized through the interactive installations.
3 years ago
Listen 1:59After a fiery crash, a Sharswood block captain is changing the traffic rules for her community
“This is not a Nascar racing zone,” Donna Price, a North Philadelphia block captain, said. “We’re going to slow it down and have safety for our children.”
4 years ago
Philadelphia Housing Authority breaks ground on $52 million Sharswood Ridge development
After months of delay caused by a protest encampment and years of anticipation, PHA broke ground on retail and housing set to create hundreds of jobs.
4 years ago
Sharswood residents and #OccupyPHA clash over protest encampment
Sharswood residents say the encampment of people experiencing homelessness is slowing down progress in the neighborhood.
4 years ago
Closed Sharswood school to be cleaned, reborn as veterans’ housing
Help USA, a nonprofit, is moving forward with a $20 million redevelopment of the former General John Reynolds Public School in North Philadelphia.
5 years ago
Sharswood residents return home after $28 million tower upgrade
Philadelphia Housing Authority reopened Sharswood Tower on Wednesday. Residents returning home celebrated their zhuzhed up digs.
6 years ago
After Dox Thrash’s Sharswood home sold in sheriff sale, a focus on alternative preservation
Prominent African-American printmaker Dox Thrash’s former home in North Philly was sold in a sheriff sale in December.
6 years ago
Bringing new homes, old convenience back to Sharswood Blumberg
The new development is part of a massive, federally funded undertaking that began in earnest in 2016, when PHA imploded the high-rise towers.
6 years ago
Afrofuturism and the new era for Sharswood’s North Philly Peace Park
After sprouting from vacant land in Sharswood in 2012, North Philly Peace Park was displaced by a $500 million redevelopment plan by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
6 years ago
$28 million renovation of Sharswood senior apartments underway
Work on the Blumberg tower's 94 apartments in North Phily is expected to be finished in a year. It's part of a $500 million redevelopment of the Sharswood neighborhood.
7 years ago
Why lawmakers, neighbors want to crack down on Philly’s ‘stop-and-go’ stores
7 years ago
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