PlanPhilly Archive
City to redevelop industrial corner of booming Passyunk Square
Philadelphia officials are looking for a developer to remake a valuable tract of city-owned land just off South Philly's thriving East Passyunk corridor.
8 years ago
Police Commissioner rejects key Starbucks arrest report recommendation
The PPD agrees that anti-racist training could help officers de-escalate conflicts but can’t commit to providing that training.
8 years ago
New map shows Philly renter spike sharper than other big cities
Over the last decade, Philadelphia saw a rise in rentership well above the national average, and higher than most of the nation’s other large cities, according to new data
8 years ago
Thomas Paine Plaza, the public space outside the Municipal Services Building, is so unremarkable that you’d be forgiven for not knowing its name.
8 years ago
Skaters fill potholes left unfixed by city crews
Wearing the flat sneakers they skate in, the self-appointed streets team poured in wet cement and smoothed the surfaces.
8 years ago
Philly maps 10-year course toward building, preserving 100,000 housing units
Detailing the strategies Philadelphia hopes to employ to create or preserve 100,000 units of housing in the next 10 years, the city’s new housing plan dropped on Wednesday.
8 years ago
The City of Philadelphia released what may be its most ambitious and concretely detailed transportation plan yet on Wednesday.
8 years ago
Listen 1:25Kenney walks back $500M Rebuild promise
The glowing “First 1,000 Days” report [pdf] released Oct. 1 by Mayor Jim Kenney contained 15 mentions of Rebuild, his most expensive and highest profile initiative.
8 years ago
Historic Germantown Boys and Girls Club spared wrecking ball
High atop the municipal building at 1515 Arch Street on Tuesday morning, the long battle over the future of the Germantown Boys and Girls Club appeared to end in détente.
8 years ago
South Philly group asks chocolate factory developer for community benefits
S. Philly residents are playing hardball with developer Ori Feibush over a $100 million residential redux of the 150-year-old Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Ave.
8 years ago
A Point Breeze night market inspires neighborhood pride
If you feed them, they will come.
8 years ago
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