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Urban Planning

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

Bagged up trash sit outside Philly homes
PlanPhilly
Government Accountability
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Streets & Roads

Trash pickup delays hit some Philly neighborhoods harder than others, analysis shows

A new report from the Philadelphia Controller's Office reveals which areas of the city have experienced the most consistent delays in trash pickup.

4 years ago

Prestige Design and Construction development in process on the 1400 block of North 7th Street in May 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Housing
Income Inequality
Real Estate

City Council wants to help neighborhoods challenge developers in court

Philadelphia Councilmember Cindy Bass said money shouldn't stop residents from having a say in neighborhood development decisions.

4 years ago

Indego bicycles set in a rack in Philly
PlanPhilly
Business
Philadelphia
Transportation

​​Indego is expanding, again: Philly bike-share program to double in size by 2026

To meet growing ridership, Indego is expanding further into West Philly and South Philly, and adding stations on Kelly Drive and in East Falls.

4 years ago

In this May 15, 2011 photo, hundreds of drilling pipes are stacked at a rail center in Gardendale, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
Energy
Environment
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania

$6 billion plant turning natural gas to fuel planned in Pennsylvania

A Texas-based company has announced plans to build a multibillion-dollar plant on the site of a former coal mine in northeastern Pennsylvania.

4 years ago

A transit security officer works on the platform of the Girard stop
PlanPhilly
Philadelphia
Transportation

SEPTA, union reach tentative deal on two-year contract, avoiding strike

To be finalized, the agreement must be ratified by TWU Local 234 members and approved by the SEPTA board.

4 years ago

Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Housing
Philadelphia
Politics

Philly Council passes bill to create new emergency repair program for neglected buildings

The bill lays the groundwork for a city program that would enlist municipal workers to fix privately owned buildings at risk of damaging their surroundings.

4 years ago

David Rose on the steps of the Black Writer’s Museum
PlanPhilly
History
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Preservation

What Germantown can learn from Lauryn Hill

David Rose moved to Germantown in 2016 to take care of the Black Writers Museum. As he prepares to leave Philly, he reflects on the lessons he learned.

4 years ago

University City Townhomes
PlanPhilly
Housing
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Preservation

Philly Council advances bill to stop demolition of University City Townhomes

A contested bill designed to preserve an affordable rental housing complex in West Philadelphia moved one step closer to becoming law on Tuesday.

4 years ago

File photo: The former PES refinery site in South Philadelphia on June 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia
Real Estate

The Bellwether District: Hilco’s new brand for the old PES refinery complex in South Philly

The 1,300-acre South Philadelphia property will become an economic engine for the city in years to come, says the company leading its makeover.

4 years ago

A Baltimore city trash bin
PlanPhilly
Environment
Public Spaces

Sanitation solutions: How giving people trash bins made Baltimore cleaner

Baltimore’s green bin program shows there are relatively simple steps cities can take to tangibly improve the cleanliness of neighborhoods.

4 years ago

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