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Urban Planning

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.

7 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.
PlanPhilly
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.

7 years ago

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

7 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.

7 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)
PlanPhilly
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.

7 years ago

(Photo Bigstock)
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

Listen 49:04
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.

7 years ago

A prototype of a public toilet created for the City of Berlin (Paul Zinken/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Health
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

Hepatitis A is spreading through poop on the streets. Philly is betting public bathrooms can stem the outbreak.

Hepatitis A is spreading through fecal matter on Philadelphia streets. As outbreak worsens, the city is installing mobile bathrooms.

7 years ago

Listen 1:40
Construction work on the foundations of phase three of The Flats redevelopment is well underway in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Changing Communities
Delaware
Housing

Next phase of $100M affordable housing overhaul begins in Wilmington

The Flats is in the midst of a major $100 million project to tear down and rebuild more than 400 affordable housing units over ten years.

7 years ago

City Council member Blondell Reynolds Brown advocates for her bill requiring universal lead checks for rental units at a June 6, 2019 press conference. (David Kim)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Health
PlanPhilly

City Hall is uniting around a lead poisoning law hated by landlords

City Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown said the issues delaying a vote on a controversial regulation have been resolved. Landlords aren’t happy.

7 years ago

Fairhill apartments in North Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia Housing Authority moves to demolish one of its last surviving towers

One of Philly’s last surviving public housing towers is moving towards demolition. Many tenants say the time is right.

7 years ago

Ground was broken Wednesday on a model unit on a 700 square-foot, city-owned parcel of land at 2147 Orleans Street in Greater Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Homelessness
Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

A Philly woman is building ‘not tiny’ houses for formerly homeless people — and their pets

Nonprofit developer Stephanie Sena will test her model for low-cost, infill housing on vacant land acquired from the Philadelphia Land Bank in 2018.

7 years ago

White paint defaces Ori Feibush's Point Breeze home. (Courtesy of Ori Feibush)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

Developer Ori Feibush says ‘anarchists’ vandalized his Point Breeze home

It’s the latest in a string of vandalism incidents that have targeted properties associated with the developer and his company, OCF Realty.

7 years ago

Commuters are shown exiting a SEPTA bus. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek, file)
Philadelphia
Transportation
Broke in Philly

Study: SEPTA transfer fees hit low-wage commuters the hardest

Commuters without a lot of cash to spare get hit hardest by SEPTA’s transfer fees, according to new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

7 years ago

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