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Urban Planning

Flooding in Eastwick during Tropical Storm Isaias in 2020
PlanPhilly
Environment
Housing
Infrastructure
Sustainability

Eastwick residents want Biden’s infrastructure plan to fund Philly’s first climate migration

The infrastructure bill signed into law creates aid opportunities for communities like Eastwick harmed by flooding.

4 years ago

Nine fruit trees were planted on a lot on the 1900 block of Norris Street in North Philadelphia
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Sustainability

Let the tree planting begin again: PHS is putting another 1,350 in the ground

Fall and spring are the best times to plant. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is providing trees that are 10 to 15 feet tall, for immediate impact.

4 years ago

Rev. Robert Collier Sr. speaks at a press conference
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Tribune

Black Clergy of Philadelphia not satisfied with city’s Rebuild plan progress

Last month, the clergy organization gathered to discuss the same problem: deteriorating facilities and lack of programs in areas where gun violence is the most prevalent.

4 years ago

Music icon and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi was in Philadelphia Monday to help break ground on Project HOME's latest long-term recovery residence in the city's Kensington neighborhood. (6abc)
Housing
Income Inequality

Jon Bon Jovi helps break ground on new Project HOME residence in Kensington

The artist's JBJ Soul Foundation is a funding partner of 62 new homes on Lehigh Avenue. They will offer an affordable, safe space to make a fresh start.

4 years ago

The Philadelphia skyline is seen from a bridge.
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Healed neighborhoods, better transit, more internet, fewer potholes: What the Infrastructure Act could mean for Philly

The funds aren’t directly allocated to cities, but Philadelphia could see significant impact from the legislation.

4 years ago

People wearing face masks play a board game
PlanPhilly
Kids
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia

Planning for a $15 million rec center begins with board game in Fairhill

A board game is helping Philadelphia officials determine the future of a public works project in a community often left out of public decision-making.

4 years ago

Listen 3:52
Delaware County Courthouse (Google Maps)
Economic Development
K-12
Pennsylvania
Taxes

Delco challenges tax-exempt properties, says school districts are shortchanged millions

Each of the properties of concern are owned by municipalities but are said to have for-profit businesses operating on the premises.

4 years ago

Protesters hold signs in front of bags of trash on the steps of the MSB
Radio Times
Environment
Government
Income Inequality
Philadelphia
Streets & Roads

Trash, trash and more trash

City Controller Rebecca Rhynhart released data showing significant differences in garbage pickup between various neighborhoods in Philadelphia. What does it mean?

Air Date: November 11, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:30
Consuela Estillero and Sid Bolling stand on a front porch
PlanPhilly
Housing
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

1,700 units of housing are set to vanish in the next 5 years. There’s little Philly officials can do

Observers see a slow-moving storm set to destabilize a housing market that is already strained by unmet demand for decent, affordable options.

4 years ago

Listen 2:03
Independence National Historic Park, also known as Independence Hall. (National Park Service)
PlanPhilly
Energy
Environment
Philadelphia
Sustainability

Why is the National Parks Service teaming up with PGW on a fossil fuel project in Philly?

The government’s ambitious rhetoric around climate is too often dangerously out of step with its own actions.

4 years ago

Looking east toward City Hall from Eakins Oval.
PlanPhilly
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads

Philly chooses firm Design Workshop, to ‘reimagine’ Ben Franklin Parkway

The firm, Design Workshop, is expected to move forward with the long-awaited redesign in early 2022.

4 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney helps plant a tree at Lt. Joseph L. Szczerba Memorial Park
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors

Delaware’s ambitious goal to plant 1 tree for every resident

In most states, planting a tree for every resident would be a monumental task, but in Delaware the new tree-planting mission might be more doable.

4 years ago

Outdoor dining at Booker’s restaurant in West Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Politics

Dining tables over parking spaces: Streeteries move toward permanence in some Philly neighborhoods

Philadelphia’s pandemic-inspired experiment with expanded outdoor dining is poised to end with streeteries made permanently legal in certain parts of the city.

4 years ago

Robin Miller looks on while standing outside
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia

Philly public works program lights the way to contracts for diverse talent

Rebuild Ready has helped 96 Philly businesses scale up to be able to compete for contracts with local government. Nearly 90% are owned by people of color.

4 years ago

A worker removes an old water pipe from underneath the street before replacing it with new copper pipe in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Environment
Infrastructure
New Jersey
Sustainability

After drinking water crisis, Newark is winning war on lead

An ambitious program to replace thousands of residential lead water lines in New Jersey's largest city is about to be completed years ahead of schedule.

4 years ago

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