Urban Planning

L&I issued permits clearing the way to demolish a jewelry shop and adjacent commercial building at 8th and Chestnut streets in the city’s historic diamond district.

In 2020, SEPTA ridership plummeted a staggering 90%. And they weren’t the only transit agency to experience drastic loss in riders and revenue.

The $2 billion rail line would connect KOP to University City and Center City, creating a trifecta of the largest employment hubs in the region.

Drivers in and around Wilmington will face plenty of backups, but that pales to the disruption the highway caused in city neighborhoods when it was first built.

The plan presents a detailed, yet still unfunded, manifest for a transit system that doesn’t center 9-5 commuters and instead, serves a changed economy.

Downside: The path is detoured at Chestnut Street for up to three months.

Philadelphia’s system for collecting waste and recycling remains troubled nearly one year after the pandemic began.

Philadelphia Land Bank officials say a reformed system is producing better results yet critics see a process that advantages developers over residents.

This tax season, Philadelphia isn’t offering the 1% discount on real estate taxes for early payment that it has given in years past.

A successor company to the Reading Railroad, which hasn't operated train cars since 1976, is fighting an effort to force repairs to a derelict train station it owns in Philly.

Conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic threatened the lungs of transit workers and commuters, the study looked at stations in four major American cities.

The Center for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia honors Mindy Fullilove, while pondering how to remediate the PES refinery site.

City Council unanimously passed the measure to create a council-led Zoning Code Review Commission to help revise the regulations that govern land use.

The CDC order allows transit operators to refuse service to unmasked riders. SEPTA said it won’t do that but it urges compliance.

Brandywine Realty Trust and its architects at Gensler are trying something new with a narrow opening between two planned towers.