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The city will not be paying your local community organization’s insurance bill anytime soon.

Hatfield House has become a hub for artists within the last year, but it still hasn't become a community space for all of Strawberry Mansion.

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for street safety improvements along Woodland Avenue.

A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.

The historical commission heard impassioned testimony from both sides of the fate of the storied Painted Bride.

The nearest major grocery store is an Acme about a half mile away.

Emily Fredrick’s mother, Laura, spoke on behalf of the family, her voice cracking with emotion.

The administration and Council came to an agreement to officially kill the 1 percent construction tax.

Speculative development is on the rise in Philadelphia with many neighborhoods on the cusp of rapid gentrification.

Philly will join other cities from around the world to set goals to combat climate change at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

For the mayor’s proposal to move forward, the construction tax’s sponsors would have to recall the construction tax bill on Thursday, Sept 13.

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The term "preservationist" can seem old-fashioned, preoccupied with the era of the Founding Fathers, or at least the Gilded Age.