Urban Planning

The Chester Housing Authority’s designation is due to “poor physical conditions.” Meanwhile, a federal probe into bribery and fraud recently delivered a trio of guilty pleas.

The project is expected to be completed in 2034. Here’s what you need to know about it.

The plan includes nearly 200 items, such as expanding the county’s farmers market program and making more rain barrels available to residents.

Municipalities and utilities are required to create an inventory of lead pipes by October.

The city repossessed the properties from a group of entities controlled by one of the neighborhood’s most notorious landlords.

The funding will go toward renovations of the Valley Green Road Bridge in Wissahickon Valley Park and the Bells Mill Bridge near Morris Arboretum.

A lack of commuters meant 8.1 million square feet of empty office space in 2023, up from 4.2 million in 2019, according to the annual Center City District report.

“We will continue to listen to our riders and stakeholders to ensure that our network provides equitable access for all,” SEPTA CEO Leslie Richards said.

The report found that property assessments in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods were more likely to be inaccurate.

Prospective homebuyers still face an uphill battle finding a house in the Philly area. High prices and mortgage rates continue to be a burden.

Worried about your carbon footprint, but not sure where to start? Turns out there’s plenty you can do at home.

Transit systems like SEPTA aren’t absent from urban planners’ guise of how public infrastructure impacts users physically and emotionally.

The designation requires that releases of PFAs and PFOs into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if they meet or exceed certain levels.

Township officials want to change zoning laws to clamp down on the rise of smoke shops, which have become a growing nuisance to community members.

The 300,000-square-foot building is the first of dozens planned for the demolished site of the largest refinery on the East Coast.