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Urban Planning

Philadelphia's downtown skyline is visible above the Eastwick tree line. (Eastwick Friends & Neighbors Coalition)
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Environment
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

City to survey land in flood-prone Eastwick before soliciting developer bids

The vacant land in question sits in a 100-year-floodplain.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Infrastructure

New partnership will protect 475,000 Philly homeowners from sewer snafus

7 years ago

Wendell Whitlock is the Board Chairman Emeritus of Sullivan Progress Plaza. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Nation’s first black-owned shopping center celebrates 50 years

The shopping center on Broad and Oxford Streets might not look out of the ordinary to the average passersby. But that hasn’t stopped po ...

7 years ago

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Ontario and C streets is rated a “3” on Philadelphia’s Litter Index. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads
PlanPhilly

Trash talk: Bigger fines, free neighborhood cans in Philly

Residents are tired of construction companies — or their neighbors — dumping debris in vacant lots and public parks.

8 years ago

Shirley Armstead poses in front her E. Vernon Road storefront office. (Bastiaan Slabbers for PlanPhilly)
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Changing Communities
Economic Development
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

Don’t call it Cedarbrook: Mount Airy shopping district gets a facelift

This week, a new chapter began with the ribbon-cutting on a $310,000 revitalization project.

8 years ago

The St. Mary By-The-Sea Retreat House in Cape May Point. (Bill Barlow/for WHYY)

Nuns plan to demolish Cape May Point retreat center

An iconic building owned by nuns may be returned to nature.

8 years ago

900 Callowhill St., Philadelphia (Google Streetview)
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Philadelphia
Politics
Real Estate
PlanPhilly

Trump’s development tax break presents ‘unusual’ opportunity for Philly, Drexel fellow says

The Treasury Department this month issued proposed guidelines for the program, which includes 82 zones in Philadelphia, 300 in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley uses a map to illustrate primary care shortages in neighborhoods in the city's Northeast and Southwest. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
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Health Care
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

Health by zip code? Some Philly neighborhoods are ‘primary care deserts’

A report released Tuesday focused on several shortage areas in primary care access for Philadelphians.

8 years ago

Listen 2:06
Vendors sell produce in the Italian Market neighborhood on South 9th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 22, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY, file)
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Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

New proposal for Italian Market improvement district introduced

On Monday night, Vern Anastasio and his allies officially pitched the “South Philly Market Improvement District.”

8 years ago

The Gallery mall covered three blocks on Market Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Changing Communities
Economic Development
Infrastructure

The Gallery: Past, Present, and Future

Our very first episode considers the forces that shaped the Gallery mall in Philadelphia, and what forces will shape its future incarnation.

Air Date: October 23, 2018

Listen 14:56
Oxford Circle - Google Street View
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Infrastructure
Public Safety

Roosevelt Boulevard speed cameras represent rare bipartisan win

Between 2011 and 2015, Roosevelt Boulevard’s 16-mile stretch has tallied six percent of the city’s total of crashes and 13 percent of its traffic fatalities.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly

For once, let’s celebrate Philly’s clean and green achievements

8 years ago

Lisa Strickland and her mother Ann say they love their Eastwick neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads
PlanPhilly

Mapping Philly’s most walkable neighborhoods

Ann Strickland, 87, has lived in the southwest corner of Eastwick for 37 years.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Transportation

SEPTA can’t say exactly how much it pays pension fund managers

8 years ago

A Passyunk Square municipal complex is slated for redevelopment. (Google Maps)
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Changing Communities
Economic Development
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

City to redevelop industrial corner of booming Passyunk Square

Philadelphia officials are looking for a developer to remake a valuable tract of city-owned land just off South Philly's thriving East Passyunk corridor.

8 years ago

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