Urban Planning

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

Some developers ignore permits, then keep on building.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Mayor Jim Kenney cut the ribbon Tuesday on the first completed project of his sugary beverage tax-funded Rebuild initiative: a restored Fishtown Recreation Center.

While the mercury cracks triple-digits above ground, the subway stays cool.

DelDOT crews worked around the clock to repair stretch of highway that buckled under high temperatures. They’re on the lookout for more damage this weekend.