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Urban Planning

Shirley Armstead poses in front her E. Vernon Road storefront office. (Bastiaan Slabbers for PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
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)
PlanPhilly
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)
PlanPhilly
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)
PlanPhilly
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
PlanPhilly
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)
PlanPhilly
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

Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

New map shows Philly renter spike sharper than other big cities

Over the last decade, Philadelphia saw a rise in rentership well above the national average, and higher than most of the nation’s other large cities, according to new data

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Preservation

Former Mayor John Street criticizes Kenney’s record on preservation; backs new PAC

8 years ago

Hundreds of Philadelphians gather at Thomas Paine Plaza to remember the those homeless and formerly homeless Philadelphians who died in 2017 and to call for an end to homelessness on December 21, 2017. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
PlanPhilly

With Dilworth and LOVE Park remade for leisure, Paine Plaza redo is a chance to save a space for protest

Thomas Paine Plaza, the public space outside the Municipal Services Building, is so unremarkable that you’d be forgiven for not knowing its name.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Preservation

Historical Commission approves Ridge Avenue district

8 years ago

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