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Urban Planning

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Delaware
Government
Infrastructure

Wilmington to receive $3 million to upgrade sewer system

The funding will help the city upgrade 120-year-old pipes in an effort to prevent flooding.

3 years ago

Housing activist Milton Street and some 1,500 of his supporters during a 1979 rally they held at Whitman Park in South Philadelphia.
History
Housing
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

The Whitman Park story: How 20th century Philadelphia failed on public housing

Local authorities proposed building 2,500 units in mostly white neighborhoods. Racism kept it from happening.

3 years ago

Ribbon cutting on the bridge
Delaware
Infrastructure
Streets & Roads

$71 million Delaware Memorial Bridge resurfacing project finished, all lanes to reopen this month

After two years of disruptions, drivers will soon be able to travel over the newly resurfaced twin spans more smoothly.

3 years ago

University City Townhomes housing complex
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Housing
Philadelphia

End of an era: West Philly’s UC Townhomes slated for demolition

The news comes after a string of demonstrations, a federal lawsuit, and a protest encampment.

3 years ago

Passengers wait on a sidewalk for a bus
Philadelphia
Streets & Roads
Transportation

City announces relocation of unpopular 6th and Market curbside bus station

The city said the “volume and nature of complaints” left the temporary location “completely untenable.”

3 years ago

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I-95 camera
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Streets & Roads
6abc

I-95 traffic to shift to new travel lanes just 5 months after interstate collapse

The first half of the new bridge at the Cottman Avenue interchange will open Monday night.

3 years ago

an empty lot filled with grass
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Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Real Estate

‘Sometimes you just get tired’: City releases RFP to redevelop troubled Logan Triangle

A developer walked away from the project after spending nearly a decade trying to breathe new life into the site.

3 years ago

Gardeners and advocates sit in chairs at a community garden.
PlanPhilly
Elections
Environment
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

‘We’re here to start a conversation’: Philly gardeners talk land security with Cherelle Parker ahead of election

The group of gardeners and advocates hopes to hold a similar conversation with Republican mayoral candidate David Oh.

3 years ago

Construction on University Avenue, seen here at Curie Boulevard, has reduced traffic from two lanes in each direction to one. It's been that way for over a year, and still has a ways to go
Philadelphia
Streets & Roads
Transportation
Billy Penn

Construction on University Avenue will be messing with West Philly commutes for at least another 6 months

It’ll be at least six months before the work, connected to a new CHOP tower, is completed and the lanes reopen, per PennDOT.

3 years ago

Large abandoned building
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Preservation
Real Estate

Industrial piers in South Philly will get new life thanks to preservation easement

Piers 38 and 40 will be part of a new development from Bart Blatstein.

3 years ago

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Rendering of the proposed 76 place
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Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Real Estate

‘A world-class boulevard’: Master plan details new vision for Market East corridor

The study comes as the Sixers push to build a new arena in Center City Philadelphia.

3 years ago

File photo: Students from W. B. Saul High School and Samuel Gompers Elementary School helped the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and Philadelphia’s Parks and Recreation plant black gum trees on the Belmont Plateau on Arbor Day, April 29, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Environment
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Philadelphia
Sustainability

Federal money coming to Philly for tree planting, lead paint awareness, and A/C units

Over $4 million in federal grant money will flow to nonprofits and local governments to support environmental justice in the Philly region.

3 years ago

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Wilmington, Delaware (Tim Kiser/Wikimedia Commons)
Delaware
Economic Development
Public Spaces

Effort to revitalize southeastern Wilmington highlighted in ‘Opportunity LIVES Here’ project

Plans to transform Wilmington's southeastern side offer hope of economic improvements for the community.

3 years ago

Listen 1:21
trash incinerator
Environment
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Chester residents unhappy with taking Philly’s trash, speak out at City Council hearing

The hearing centered on Philadelphia’s use of a Chester incinerator to convert a portion of Philly’s trash to energy.

3 years ago

Schuylkill Yards development project
Economic Development
Philadelphia
Real Estate
Billy Penn

What to know about Schuylkill Yards, the $3.5 billion West Philly development from Drexel and Brandywine

The project just marked a milestone with its second tower. Developers say it won’t harm the local community.

3 years ago

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