Ryan Briggs
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Swank swim club to top off former PHA building
For any more evidence of Philadelphia’s changing cityscape, look no farther than the intersection of Ludlow and 23rd streets in Center City.
6 years ago
A park that makes money? Dilworth generated $2.5 million in 2018
A separate budget projection indicates that the CCD expects these revenues to increase by 58 percent by 2022.
6 years ago
Troubled Philly land sale office facing takeover after scandals
A once-obscure city office that critics link to Philadelphia’s pay-to-play political culture will soon be taken over by the Philadelphia Land Bank.
6 years ago
Filthadelphia no more? Kenney seeks to ‘vastly’ increase street cleaning
Philadelphia is currently the only large municipality without a comprehensive street sweeping plan.
6 years ago
How City Council broke Philly’s app for selling blighted land
At the current pace, it will take the City of Philadelphia 50 years to sell off its publicly owned vacant land.
6 years ago
Philly DA Krasner fined $4K for super PAC campaign finance violation
The Real Justice PAC, which is now allied with Shaun King, paid for three embedded staffers for Larry Krasner’s campaign for Philadelphia District Attorney.
6 years ago
First glimpse of contemporary art museum coming to Fishtown
Blueprints show a new tower rising on an empty lot next to existing warehouse buildings. Plans show retail, an outdoor cafe, and a bar or restaurant space.
6 years ago
Lobbying war over Philly soda tax still waged by the millions
Although the tax survived a courtroom challenge filed by the industry in July 2018, the lobbying has only intensified.
6 years ago
Billionaire planning contemporary art museum in Fishtown warehouse
A series of Frankford Avenue warehouses are slated to become a permanent home for the West Collection, a 3,100-piece cache of contemporary art.
6 years ago
Former Lt. Gov. Mike Stack ‘seriously considering’ bid for Philly City Council
After nearly two decades in Harrisburg, Stack left office under a cloud of scandal and rumored acrimony between himself and Gov. Tom Wolf.
6 years ago
Landlords must exterminate bed bugs under City Council bill
Philadelphia landlords who go soft on bedbugs could face stiff penalties under a new bill proposed by City Councilman Mark Squilla.
6 years ago
Fishtown’s St. Laurentius church cleared for redevelopment
A judge’s ruling on Tuesday paves the way for a long-contested redevelopment of St. Laurentius, a crumbling Catholic church in Philadelphia’s growing Fishtown neighborhood.
6 years ago