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PlanPhilly

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Philly's Italian Market
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Italian Market BID dead after opponents raise voices

A proposed business improvement district (BID) that divided Italian Market property owners, tenants, and residents won’t advance in 2019.

6 years ago

Belinda Thomspson, 69, wipes away tears as she tells how her brother tried to evict her from her mother's house. She spoke during a hearing on a City Council bill that would guarantee legal counsel for those facing eviction. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

‘Everyone deserves an attorney’: City Council advances bill guaranteeing legal aid to renters facing eviction

A measure that would secure lawyers for low-income renters in eviction court advanced in City Hall Tuesday.

6 years ago

SEPTA Regional Rail (Nathaniel Hamilton for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

16-year-old girl fatally hit by SEPTA train near Swarthmore Station

The teenager was pronounced dead at the scene south of Swarthmore Station on the Center City- bound side of the Media/Elwyn Line. SEPTA has ruled out foul play.

6 years ago

The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills. (Bigstock/JKLS photography)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philadelphians can opt for renewable natural gas come January

The Energy Co-op is expanding its renewable natural gas service area to Philadelphia. The fuel comes from methane captured at landfills.

6 years ago

The exterior of Philadelphia City Hall
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia’s budget team is strategizing for the next recession

Municipal budgets are healthier than they were a decade ago. Still, departments have been asked to prepare proposals for a variety of scenarios.

6 years ago

The former John F Reynolds school building will receive environmental testing as part of a grant form the federal EPA to the PHA. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Closed Sharswood school to be cleaned, reborn as veterans’ housing

Help USA, a nonprofit, is moving forward with a $20 million redevelopment of the former General John Reynolds Public School in North Philadelphia.

6 years ago

PlanPhilly's Managing Editor, Ariella Cohen, introducing the panel. To her immediate left sits Paul Farber followed by Karyn Olivier, Ori Feibush and Faye Anderson. (Emily Gann/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Listen: Here’s what happened when a real estate developer, an artist, a historian and an activist got together to talk Philly preservation, displacement and culture

Listen to a live conversation between Philly developer Ori Feibush, Paul Farber of Monument Lab, preservationist Faye Anderson and artist Karyn Olivier.

6 years ago

Listen 65:21
Amal Ibrahim, a bartender, has joined a class action law suit alleging brothers Imad Dawara and Bahaa Dawara defrauded employees out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in wages. The brothers have been charged with arson in connection with the 2018 fire that burned the 200 block of Chestnut Street. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Brothers indicted in Old City arson stole wages, lawsuit alleges

Years before federal authorities charged Imad and Bahaa Dawara with torching their Old City business, former employees say the pair stole their wages.

6 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

ACLU and SEPTA spar over ‘unconstitutional’ ad policy

Federal judges could reconsider a ruling allowing SEPTA to refuse to run ads about housing discrimination.

6 years ago

Vu Ho is the owner of Ethan's Food Truck. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Food cart owners say City Hall is pushing them out of Philly. Here’s why.

New restrictions from Philadelphia City Council are making business tough for many Philadelphia food carts.

6 years ago

Streets Department employee Shaketa Armstead worries about her health every day she's on the job, in part because the low-quality safety equipment the city provides. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Feces and needles ‘jumping in the air’: City street cleaners want better safety gear

Philadelphia street cleaners say the city’s street sweeping pilot is exposing them to health hazards.

6 years ago

Listen 2:50
No parking, yet retail still thrives. Social interaction is facilitated by human scale infrastructure. (Courtesy of Christopher Puchalsky)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

What Philly can learn from Copenhagen’s response to the climate crisis

City officials from Philadelphia visited Copenhagen for the C40 World Mayors Summit. Here’s what Philly can learn from the city’s design.

6 years ago

Police investigate a 2018 drive-by shooting in Germantown. The City’s Controller has found that a homicide reduces the values of a nearby homes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Homicide and home values: Why the city controller says Philly needs a fiscal argument to combat murder rate

A new report says that murder in Philadelphia hurts home values. And its authors think the city needs to hear that message to prompt real change.

6 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Park at Penn's Landing.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Finally, the final design phase is beginning for Park at Penn’s Landing

Funding is in place, preliminary engineering is done, and a survey asking about current and future waterfront uses is linked on the park’s website.

6 years ago

Residents from the Philadelphian, a condominium building across from the Philadelphia Art Museum, support the ban on plastic bags because they interfere with recycling. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Philly Council committee moves plastic bag ban to final vote, but kills 15-cent fee

Philadelphia took one step closer to banning single-use bags Tuesday but axed a 15-cent fee on thicker plastic and recyclable paper bags.

6 years ago

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