PlanPhilly Archive

For recent Penn undergraduate Corey Loftus, who graduated in 2018, the vulnerability of these iconic structures is a disaster waiting to happen.

Although Philadelphia is about 43 percent black, police stop black drivers nearly 66 percent of the time, according to an analysis of vehicle stop figures.

After a bad year, the Germantown Special Services District was in the red and unable to do its one main job: keep the streets clean.

SEPTA is bracing for a possible $63 million shortfall in 2019, pending the outcome of a contentious lawsuit filed in federal court by two motorists’ groups.

In December, Minneapolis City Council voted for the ban to confront a growing affordability crisis and longstanding patterns of racial segregation.

Ostroff said that while he doesn’t know how he will repurpose the former community center, he hopes to use it as a school or a daycare.

Before it became Weccacoe Playground, it was the Bethel Burying Ground, established by Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1810.

Randy LoBasso, policy manager at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, looks forward to 2019 with hope for the safety of Philly streets.

Private developers filed for more than 500 new demolition permits in 2018, bolstered by a strong real estate market and weak historic protections.

Tenants are complaining of mistreatment at the hands of the biggest landowner in a burgeoning warehouse district northeast of Center City Philadelphia.

The fall 2018 council session ended with a landmark victory — Helen Gym’s Fair Work Week bill. But most of the bills they considered don’t receive that kind of attention.

Surveillance cameras are coming to Philadelphia neighborhoods as part of a plan to make illegal dumpers pay for their trashy behavior.

The new coffee shop would be smaller than the Dilworth Park Cafe-branded Starbucks that operates on the City Hall plaza’s northern end, and won’t include seating.