PlanPhilly Archive

The $500,000 first phase of the project includes a new practice field beside Parkside-Evans Playground.

Federal officials announced a $15 million dollar federal grant, part of a joint effort known as Schuylkill Yards.

Philly Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell has halted the city’s long-awaited remake of the former Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building at 4601 Market Street.

Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 attempted to push through a contested bill requiring costly new annual inspections of the fire protection devices mandated for most high-rise buil

After 18 months, the Historic Preservation Task Force released its final recommendations including ideas to incentivize preservation and encourage citizen engagement.

While parking is only one of a number of issues at play in the creation of the so-called South Philly Market Improvement District, the issue dominated the conversation.

46 percent of Philly's most dangerous roads are in poor areas mostly populated by people of color, according to an analysis of city crash data done by the Bicycle Coalition.

The beloved split-flap sign at 30th Street Station, in Philadelphia, may have earned an 11th hour reprieve.

The Philadelphia Resilience Project’s Safe Corridors initiative intends to make walks back and forth to school safer

Is it possible to reform Philadelphia’s corruption-prone system of selling public land without removing City’s Council’s informal power over sales?

The DA auctions off seized homes to the highest bidder, for cash that went back to the law enforcement agencies. The legal process is known as civil asset forfeiture.

Amtrak appears intent on following through on its plan to install digital screens and send its Solari board to a museum.

Most tenants get evicted because they cannot afford their rent, and non-payment is a “good cause” under the bill’s definition.

City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson and Council President Darrell Clarke introduced a bill Thursday they say creates new safeguards against corrupt land dealing in City Hall.

The new development is part of a massive, federally funded undertaking that began in earnest in 2016, when PHA imploded the high-rise towers.