PlanPhilly Archive

A new dock for dragon boats, HVAC systems for the city’s homeless shelters, and a cap for I-95 along Penn’s Landing are among the capital projects.

Leon Caldwell, a socially minded real estate developer who was born and raised in West Philadelphia, spends a lot of time thinking about how neighborhoods grow and change.

Like Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, Indego has gone electric, adding 10 pedal-assist bicycles to its bike share fleet.

Long before I learned about redlining, “white flight,” and mass incarceration, I wondered how spaces that housed the dead could look so much better than those for the living.

Standing in Pennypack where the trail opens, the crack of gunfire can often be heard in the distance.

“I can’t say anything positive about this project,” said Daniel Garofalo, environmental sustainability director at the University of Pennsylvania and CDR member.

"We're in the running until they tell us we're not."

Eliu Nazario aka Karaz, who died of brain cancer at the age of 51, is revered among fellow writers as the “king of the Wickeds,”

The bill proposes updating zoning maps to reflect the development that currently exists in the neighborhood.

The committee has spent the last four years figuring out how to restore the Chester County suburb's Regional Rail service, which was cut in 1986

A fed. judge may force SEPTA to scale back its effort to keep politically charged advertisements off its bus shelters and vehicles when he issues a decision later this month

The vacant land in question sits in a 100-year-floodplain.

Sharps deposit boxes are Philadelphia’s newest tool in its four-week-old recovery campaign for opioid-plagued Kensington.

Aslam Market is a treasure trove of unique staples such as Nepalese dumpling — momo— mix, Indian sweets, Burmese sweet curry, and Indonesian instant noodles.