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Urban Planning

A sled speeds down a track during a test of a Hyperloop One propulsion system, Wednesday, May 11, 2016, in North Las Vegas, Nev. The startup company opened its test site outside of Las Vegas for the first public demonstration of technology for a super-speed, tube based transportation system. (AP Photo/John Locher)
PlanPhilly
Infrastructure
Transportation
PlanPhilly

A Philly-Pittsburgh Hyperloop? State House resolution calls for feasibility study

It’s not hyperbole to say that no contemporary transit proposal has received as much hype as the Hyperloop.

7 years ago

Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode Sr.
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As Philly honors former mayor with street sign, protesters assail Goode’s MOVE legacy

'I’m going to man up for what happened on May 13,' says W. Wilson Goode Sr.

7 years ago

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(Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Streets & Roads

Philadelphia officials promise crackdown on Center City traffic scofflaws

Added enforcement of traffic laws will focus on Market and Chestnut streets.

7 years ago

A shopper browses the produce at the new Sprouts market on South Broad Street. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Business
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Has Philly hit peak supermarket?

There was a “boom of store openings” across the U.S. between 2009 and 2017.

7 years ago

Listen 4:41
Residents of Fishtown were provided an open forum to voice their opinions on a proposal to convert Saint Laurentius Church into twenty-three apartments. (Brad Larrison for WHYY, file)
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Insurance
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Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Planning Commission votes down bill that would help Philly community groups pay for insurance

The city will not be paying your local community organization’s insurance bill anytime soon.

7 years ago

Strawberry Mansion residents mingle on the lawn of the Hatfield House at an art and storytelling event hosted by Amber Art and Design in July. (Albert Yee for Fairmount Park Conservancy)
PlanPhilly
Community Events
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

Fairmount Park gave artists the keys to a historic mansion. One year later, they aren’t leaving.

Hatfield House has become a hub for artists within the last year, but it still hasn't become a community space for all of Strawberry Mansion.

7 years ago

Plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing (Courtesy of  Hargreaves Associates & redsquare)
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Outdoors
Reinvention
PlanPhilly

Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.

7 years ago

The Painted Bride building was denied historic designation, opening the door to a sale of the iconic Old City building. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Architecture & Design
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Painted Bride denied historic status, removing roadblock to iconic building’s sale

The historical commission heard impassioned testimony from both sides of the fate of the storied Painted Bride.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
 A rendering of the development proposed for the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Hortter Street. (M Architects LLC — Morrissey Design LLC)
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

Will Philly’s parking wars cost Mount Airy a new grocery store?

The nearest major grocery store is an Acme about a half mile away.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney shakes hands with members of City Council after speaking at City Hall in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
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Housing
Philadelphia
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City Council is back from summer break. Day 1 ended with Kenney promising money for housing.

The administration and Council came to an agreement to officially kill the 1 percent construction tax.

8 years ago

Activists protest evictions in Germantown (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Housing
PlanPhilly

Mass evictions are growing more common in Philly. Here’s how to fight them.

Speculative development is on the rise in Philadelphia with many neighborhoods on the cusp of rapid gentrification.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Public Spaces

The story behind the light-colored mist in Dilworth Park’s new installation

8 years ago

Solar panels and the Philadelphia skyline in winter (Solar States)
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Environment
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia signs new climate action agenda

Philly will join other cities from around the world to set goals to combat climate change at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

8 years ago

Mayor Kenney speaks at annual budget address. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Taxes

Philly’s construction tax is dead and Kenney wants to pay for affordable housing with cash from abatements

For the mayor’s proposal to move forward, the construction tax’s sponsors would have to recall the construction tax bill on Thursday, Sept 13.

8 years ago

Listen 2:16
PlanPhilly

Cindy Bass proposes eliminating 10-year tax abatement

8 years ago

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