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A verdant view of the Rail Park, looking cool on a humid summer evening. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Walking the walk along Philly’s new Rail Park

The evening jaunt was part of the Walk – Talk the Rail Park #happyhourlab hosted by CityLab and PlanPhilly.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

End of temporary FEMA housing for Puerto Rican evacuees won’t be catastrophic in Philly

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Glitch gives some SEPTA Key holders a free ride in London, Chicago

7 years ago

A rendering of the latest design for a residential and office development slated to replace a parking lot on the corner of 8th and Vine streets.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

New plans for Chinatown development show a lush park

The proposed development will replace a city-owned parking bounded by Race Street and the Vine Street Expressway, between Eighth and Ninth Streets.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly’s only majority black building trades union planning move from the ‘burbs to North Broad

7 years ago

Close-up of a SEPTA turnstile
PlanPhilly
Community

Come Sept. 1, seniors will need new Key Cards (or old driver’s licenses) to ride SEPTA for free.

SEPTA’s effort to replace all its tickets, tokens and other fare instruments with the Key Card continues to creep along.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

In West Philadelphia, a park collaboration in progress

7 years ago

View on the skyline of Center City Philadelphia, during sunset, on August 28, 2017. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A day in the life of Philadelphia, and the people who make it go

It is a miracle that Philadelphia works at all. The whole idea is implausible.

7 years ago

Listen 21:27
The visitors center at Love Park. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Taking ‘panes’ to overhaul Philly visitors center in LOVE Park

The challenge of installing windows in the circular visitors center has delayed its expected reopening until spring.

7 years ago

The Colonial, located in the heart of the commercial corridor on Bridge Street in Phoenixville, PA, on August 21, 2018. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

A long-shot plan to extend Regional Rail to Phoenixville could revolutionize how infrastructure is built

A mayoral task force is proposing a short-term pilot project using some of Norfolk Southern’s freight rail tracks to link Phoenixville to the Norristown/Manayunk line.

7 years ago

Listen 5:30
Freedom Theater, from the corner of Broad and Master Street (Google maps)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Freedom Theater’s venerable home struggles to rebound from a very wet season

This sprawling 1850s-mansion in North Philadelphia has served as a vibrant hub for African-American artists, but the building is struggling in the face of extreme weather.

7 years ago

Louis J. Gambaccini died on Aug 19. (Insert, Hillsborough Funeral Home; background, SEPTA)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Transportation community mourns Louis J. Gambaccini, a SEPTA legend and founder of NJ Transit

In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Gambaccini shaped transportation networks across some of the nation's densest metropolitan regions

7 years ago

Mayor Jim Kenney, in March 2016, pitching the beverage tax as key to paying for his Rebuild initiative. (PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Mostly behind the scenes, the work of Rebuild begins

Rebuild is finally underway.

7 years ago

The 93-year-old Cherry Street Pier is being transformed into a public space with artists' studios.
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Artists taking up residence as Cherry Street pier readies for October opening

The Cherry Street Pier on the Delaware River waterfront is expected to open Oct. 12 with an open-air park, marketplace, food service and bar, and an artists colony.

7 years ago

Police stand guard at the Frank Rizzo statue on the grounds of the Municipal Services Building. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

A historian on the Rizzo debate: ‘It comes down to what statues do’

Controversy surrounding the 10-foot-tall statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo across from City Hall has rekindled in recent weeks

7 years ago

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