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A Google Streetview image of 2601 Poplar St. (Google/WHYY)
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Changing Communities
Real Estate
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108 apartments coming to vacant Poplar St. lot and neighbors aren’t happy

The owner of a popular Fairmount cafe and artisanal market has gotten permits to build a 55-foot-tall apartment complex on a vacant Poplar Street lot.

6 years ago

Solar panels on Philadelphia rowhouses. (Adam Stein for Solar States)
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Environment
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Dreaming about going solar? Now, a city rebate can help

Signed into law Wednesday are programs designed to offer incentives to home and business owners and help the city advance its climate goals.

6 years ago

Riders cruise through Brooklyn on Revel mopeds. (Courtesy of Revel)
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Philadelphia
Transportation

NYC moped startup Revel is eyeing Philly. My test-ride proved how thrilling/scary that would be.

Revel offers registered vehicles through an app. It runs a $19 check of your driving record before unlocking anything. And no wheels if you’re under 21.

6 years ago

WILMAPCO’s Bill Swiatek points to a map from the group’s Transportation Justice Plan that shows the high cost of transportation and housing for those living in high poverty areas. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Transportation

Racial inequities found in Delaware’s regional transportation network

A Wilmington Area Planning Council report found black and Latino populations have been historically disadvantaged by the region’s transportation network.

6 years ago

Construction on the Crane, pictured, is nearly complete. (PCDC Rittenhouse Realty Advisors)
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Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Chinatown CDC is marketing the ‘hood’s tallest tower as a $67 million lux address

The project was originally planned with an affordable housing component, but is now being pitched to investors as a luxury property.

6 years ago

An artist's rendering shows an apartment complex planned for 2157 E. Lehigh Ave. Some in the neighborhood want the wall running alongside the development on Lehigh to be torn down.(DesignBlendz/B.S.K.M./PlanPhilly.)
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Architecture & Design
Changing Communities
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

Why Kensington wants to tear down a 25-foot-high Lehigh Ave. wall

Kensington residents want a developer to put $1 million towards removing a wall they say divides the neighborhood.

6 years ago

SEPTA regional rail train. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Climate change is messing with your commute, SEPTA says after storms halt trains

Most scientists concur that climate change is causing more severe and more frequent storms –– and transit agencies like SEPTA are struggling to keep up.

6 years ago

A rendering of the final layout of the Grays Ferry Avenue Bridge. (PennDOT)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Streets & Roads
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Grays Ferry Bridge is scary for cyclists and PennDOT’s rebuild won’t solve the problem

The $13.3 million reconstruction of the Grays Ferry Bridge will include a protected bike lane — but only on one half of the bridge.

6 years ago

Leafy Pine Street in Center City is contrasted with treeless North 5th Street in Hunting Park. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Environment
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Why some Philly neighborhoods have lots of trees — and others don’t

In Philadelphia, there many more trees in wealthy neighborhoods than in lower income ones. What are officials doing to make sure streets are equally green?

Air Date: August 7, 2019

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A view of the Chestnut Street bridge in 2019.
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Philadelphia
Transportation
PlanPhilly

Chestnut Street Bridge to close Monday for year-long makeover

During the year-long closure, motorists and cyclists heading east from West Philadelphia will be detoured north. The bridge will close after 8 p.m.

6 years ago

Visitors walk under the arches of Graffiti Pier. (Joel Wolfram for WHYY)
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Outdoors
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Can Graffiti Pier become a tourist attraction and still serve the people who put it on the map?

Graffiti Pier is on track for reinvention into a public park unlike any other in the United States.

6 years ago

Cesar Viveros, a multimedia artist who works for the Mural Arts Program. He and his children have been been displaced from their Kensington home due to faulty construction next door. COURTSEY CESAR VIVEROS
Housing
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

How faulty construction breaks up Philly families — and why the city can’t stop it

Some developers ignore permits, then keep on building.

6 years ago

William Toms, left, and David Silver announce plans to build a 10,000-square-foot space in Fashion District Philadelphia. (Bruno Guerreiro/REC Philly)
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Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Why Fashion District will open in revamped Gallery mall with space for ‘co-creating’

Fashion District is a new kind of mall for Philadelphia. It’s a mix of stores and a co-working space for creatives reflects trends reshaping shopping plazas everywhere.

6 years ago

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Radio Times
Architecture & Design
Changing Communities
Philadelphia

The hidden history of the suburbs

We might think that all suburbs are the same but a dive into the history of suburbia shows something more interesting than shopping malls and housing developments.

Air Date: August 2, 2019 10:00 am

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Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Health Care
Philadelphia

Hospital union wants city to rezone Hahnemann property so it can’t be flipped

District 1199C wants a zoning change that would require the hospital property to be used for health care, and prevent developers from building apartments.

6 years ago

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