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Urban Planning

The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills. (Bigstock/JKLS photography)
PlanPhilly
Energy
Environment
Philadelphia

Philadelphians can opt for renewable natural gas come January

The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills.

6 years ago

The former John F Reynolds school building will receive environmental testing as part of a grant form the federal EPA to the PHA. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Health

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.

6 years ago

PlanPhilly's Managing Editor, Ariella Cohen, introducing the panel. To her immediate left sits Paul Farber followed by Karyn Olivier, Ori Feibush and Faye Anderson. (Emily Gann/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Preservation
Real Estate

Listen: Here’s what happened when a real estate developer, an artist, a historian and an activist got together to talk Philly preservation, displacement and culture

Listen to a live conversation between Philly developer Ori Feibush, Paul Farber of Monument Lab, preservationist Faye Anderson and artist Karyn Olivier.

6 years ago

Listen 65:21
Vu Ho is the owner of Ethan's Food Truck. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Philadelphia

Food cart owners say City Hall is pushing them out of Philly. Here’s why.

New restrictions from Philadelphia City Council are making business tough for many Philadelphia food carts.

6 years ago

No parking, yet retail still thrives. Social interaction is facilitated by human scale infrastructure. (Courtesy of Christopher Puchalsky)
PlanPhilly
Environment
International
Philadelphia
Eyes on the Street

What Philly can learn from Copenhagen’s response to the climate crisis

City officials from Philadelphia visited Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit. Here’s what Philly can learn from the city’s design.

6 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Park at Penn's Landing.
PlanPhilly
Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Finally, the final design phase is beginning for Park at Penn’s Landing

Funding is in place, preliminary engineering is done, and a survey asking about current and future waterfront uses is linked on the park’s website.

6 years ago

Ray King's artwork illuminates the platform of the revamped 15th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Transportation

Lights! Elevators! Signs! SEPTA’s 15th Street Station gets $28 million makeover

The $28 million renovation moves the transit agency closer to meeting goals for accessibility and design.

6 years ago

The Market-Frankford line, with the Philly skyline in the background
PlanPhilly
Transportation

SEPTA is building a parking garage for 69th Street Station’s 35,000 daily riders

Construction on the $37 million three-story garage should begin by summer 2020 and last about 18 months.

6 years ago

solar panels
Down the Shore
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Shore town approves N.J.’s largest solar farm on Superfund site

A sprawling solar farm could soon become operational on an Ocean County Superfund site that's roughly the size of Hoboken. 

6 years ago

Traffic clogs I-676 in Philadelphia  during the SEPTA strike. (Katherine Blodgett via Twitter)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

As congestion worsens in Philly, car-related emissions spike

Philadelphia’s congestion problem is growing on the streets and in the air. 

6 years ago

Johny Brenda’s at Girad and Frankford Avenues in Fishtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia

Despite loud opposition, business improvement districts for Fishtown, South Philly advance

Business owners in Fishtown and South Philadelphia could soon be paying an assessment for new services.

6 years ago

A commuter listens to music while they wait for a SEPTA bus. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

Too loud, too bad: SEPTA doesn’t enforce ban on playing music without headphones

SEPTA’s policy on loud music is that it is officially prohibited on transit. But SEPTA Police doesn’t actively enforce against the violation.

6 years ago

These garages on Lombard Street provide residential parking. (PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia

‘I don’t have the support’: Blackwell defeated on bid to mandate more parking

Researchers have found that requiring more space for cars encourages less dense and more expensive housing development.

6 years ago

A makeshift memorial is shown near the location where a mother and three young sons were struck and killed while trying to cross a busy highway after dark, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in Philadelphia. A fourth son was injured in the crash Tuesday night on Roosevelt Boulevard, a major artery that divides neighborhoods in north and northeast Philadelphia.  (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Transportation

2019 traffic deaths higher in North, Northeast Philly than the rest of the city

Fifty percent of all severe crashes occur on just 12% of Philadelphia streets. That means certain roads — and certain neighborhoods — are at higher risk for traffic danger.

6 years ago

This March 14, 2017, photo shows the flooded streets of a back bay neighborhood in Manahawkin N.J., after a moderate storm. Scientists and people living in back-bay areas behind barrier islands say flooding is increasing, even as the problem gets less attention and money than flooding along the ocean. (Wayne Parry/AP Photo)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

Poll: Two-thirds of N.J. residents view climate change as a crisis

A newly released poll has found that more than two in three New Jersey residents feel that climate change is at a crisis level.

6 years ago

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