PlanPhilly Archive

Opponents of Philly’s 10-year tax abatement filed an ethics complaint against Councilman Domb, claiming that he shouldn’t make decisions about the policy.

The popular fish address sign is a potent symbol with different meanings for different people in the fast-changing Philadelphia neighborhood.

There will be a lot to talk about in your Uber Wednesday — if you can get one.

The federal civil rights complaint alleges that Temple police stopped a high school student at gunpoint for doing nothing other than driving while black.

A campaign to organize parking industry workers scored a win when two bills regulating industry labor practices passed unanimously.

After almost two decades of legal disputes and neighborhood enmity, the super-luxury 12-story condo development behind the Dilworth House cleared its final hurdle this week.

Councilman Mark Squilla is stepping into a fight over a driveway that opponents say would threaten the pedestrian character of the Italian Market.

Eight sections of Philadelphia will be no-go zones for medical marijuana under legislation passed by City Council on Thursday.

In Philadelphia, a series of 35 volunteer-led groups will traverse the city’s neighborhoods starting Friday and continuing through Sunday May 5.

The e-bikes can reach a top speed of 17 miles per hour. Philadelphia will start rolling them out in late May.

When the School Reform Commission went against neighborhood desires and closed Fairhill along with 21 other schools in 2013, officials promised to sell the buildings.

SEPTA is mulling the elimination of its $1 transfer fee for switching transit lines.

The building will be designed by ISA Architects, a firm with a history of success on odd lots such as the narrow Chinatown lot.

The $4.5 million needed to dredge shallow areas around Boathouse Row and the national racecourse means silt threatening the city’s regattas will be removed.