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Urban Planning

The streets around St. Laurentius Church are blocked due to falling debris and slated demolition. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Architecture & Design
Preservation
Religion

St. Laurentius Church in Fishtown lives — Historical Commission delays demolition vote

A bitterly fought-over Fishtown icon will survive at least another month after heated debate over whether the crumbling landmark can be saved.

6 years ago

People dine outside in Northern Liberties. (Courtesy of Northern Liberties Business Improvement District)
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Public Health

Philadelphia postpones street closures for outdoor dining over safety, health concerns

The city asked a Northern Liberties group to cancel an on-street dining event after an Old City man pulled out a gun during a fight over social distancing.

6 years ago

Protesters held a rally for reparations and racial justice on the Fourth of July outside Philadelphia’s Municipal Services building. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Eyes on the Street

Reparations would help cities. Now is the time for urbanists to advocate for them.

It’s time for cities to take a reparative framework that addresses impacts of past harm.

6 years ago

Outdoor dining at P'unk Burger and Flannel on East Passyunk Avenue.
PlanPhilly
Food & Drink
Neighborhoods

Passyunk postpones outdoor dining event after gun pulled in Old City mask fight

An altercation over mask-wearing alarms Philadelphia business districts considering street closures to allow expanded outdoor dining.

6 years ago

An aerial view of Graffiti Pier
Philadelphia
Public Spaces
Billy Penn

Designers reveal plans for Graffiti Pier as a waterfront park

When Philly’s most-Instagrammed site gets a makeover, it’ll look… pretty much the same.

6 years ago

Volunteers with New Kensington CDC clean up in Kensington on June 1, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Philadelphia

‘What we need is leadership’: Kensington councilmembers say mayor is failing community

Councilmember María Quiñones-Sánchez and other community leaders say Mayor Jim Kenney must invest in housing and cleanup in the opioid hotspot.

6 years ago

A SEPTA bus approaches City Hall in a bus lane.
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Streets & Roads
Transportation

Philly officials support automated bus lane enforcement and say it could improve ‘transit equity’

State Rep. Martina White plans a bill that would create two pilot programs using a system in which cameras record and ticket drivers who park in bus lanes.

6 years ago

Protesters take over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
PlanPhilly
Public Spaces
Race & Ethnicity

White urbanists: let’s use our privilege to advocate for anti-racist design

Urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman argues that in order for cities to be “human-centered,” white urbanists need to actively be anti-racist.

6 years ago

A family works at the La Parcelas community garden in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Outdoors
Philadelphia

PHDC streamlines public land sale system for those envisioning side yards, community gardens

The agency managing certain city land sales will launch new online platforms to allow formal applications to buy land for side yards or community gardens.

6 years ago

File photo: A SEPTA regional rail train. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Public Health
Transportation

SEPTA to boost service on Regional Rail lines starting Monday

Trains will run hourly weekday service on most lines as the transportation agency gets back on track for the region’s move into the green reopening phase.

6 years ago

Gardeners (from left) Josh Reaves, Mirta Gonzalez, Sara Vega, Willow Zef, Morgana Ginet, Anthony Batrick, Lauren Troop and Ada Marie Biaz at the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden in Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Changing Communities
Economic Development
Philadelphia

South Kensington gardeners challenge housing project — and win a conversation

Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha is partnering with Scannapieco Development Corporation on the mixed-income development.

6 years ago

A street sweeper works along Kensington Avenue
PlanPhilly
Neighborhoods
Streets & Roads

Street sweeping to continue in 6 Philly neighborhoods and on business corridors

Budget cuts, however, will prevent a planned expansion of the city’s street cleaning program.

6 years ago

(Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Outdoors

After delays, N.J. beach replenishment project to get underway

A $32.5 million beach replenishment and dune building project in Cape May County that was scheduled to begin earlier this year will soon be underway, officials said.

6 years ago

Smoke billows from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining Complex in Philadelphia, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Economy
Energy
Philadelphia

Company buying bankrupt PES refinery promises 18,000 jobs in next 10 years

A Hilco Redevelopment Partners executive told a City Council hearing the company’s plan will create 8,000 union construction jobs, 10,000 permanent jobs.

6 years ago

Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small speaks at a press conference, where he announced that billionaire investor Carl Icahn has filed plans to demolish the former Trump Plaza casino, in Atlantic City, N.J., Thursday, June 11, 2020, where pieces of the building have broken loose and crashed to the ground. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Economic Development
New Jersey

Carl Icahn wants to raze a former Trump casino. But when?

Mayor Marty Small held a news conference to announce that Icahn's company has filed demolition plans with the city that call for both towers of the casino to be implode.

6 years ago

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