PlanPhilly Archive

Until now, Mayor Jim Kenney and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf have refused to discuss details of the incentives offered in their HQ2 proposal.

Khalif appears to be the first to officially declare.

Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce is putting the finishing touches on a request for proposal for a $3.3 million remake of Maplewood Mall.

Mayor Jim Kenney responded to the news with a thank you to Amazon.

Currently, the vast majority of renters do not receive legal aid in Philadelphia, where landlords evict more people than in other large cities.

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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.