Urban Planning news: Philly real estate, transportation & housing

Meet the broken system costing your neighborhood its voice

8 years ago

The 200 block of South Broadway is one of Camden's vital retail hubs. (Image Google Maps)

N.J. considers renewing economic incentive program in Camden, Trenton, other cities

About 6,000 businesses take advantage of the program designed to help small firms by allowing them to charge half the state sales tax rate.

8 years ago

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Patco’s morning-after mea culpa is good juju on Super Bowl Friday

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Real Estate

A tweak to the city’s plumbing code on tap to lower housing costs, but will Philly politics stand in the way?

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Economic Development

Philadelphia a hot spot among Millennials? Not so fast, researchers say.

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Opening the Delaware waterfront to the city

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Lux townhouses are coming to a flood-prone island off the coast of Manayunk

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Sustainability

Why Philly’s sustainability czar published a magazine about neighborhood life instead of another boring report on climate change

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Economic Development

Sustainability

The Navy Yard unveils new addition to Philly’s first energy “microgrid”

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Housing

City launches new program to help renters facing eviction

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FILE - This May 13, 2014, file photo shows a row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. California regulators release safety reports filed by 11 companies that have been testing self-driving car prototypes on public roads on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. The papers report the number of times in 2016 that human backup drivers took control from the cars' self-driving software, though companies argue such

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Hands off: our self-driving future

Guests: Erick Guerra, Andrew Hawkins The self-driving cab will soon be a reality. GM announced that its autonomou ...

Air Date: January 30, 2018

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Residents from across Northwest Philly come out to talk about the future of their neighborhoods

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Preservation

Construction continues on apartments planned atop oldest African American graveyard in West Philadelphia

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Showtime is approaching at North Broad’s old opera house

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Preservation

Real Estate

On Market East, an unusual fight in old battle pitting preservation against progress

8 years ago

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