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Politics & Policy

Good news and the bad in Philadelphia’s transportation plan

Philadelphia deserves a serious transportation agenda.

8 years ago

900 Callowhill St., Philadelphia (Google Streetview)
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Urban Planning
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Trump’s development tax break presents ‘unusual’ opportunity for Philly, Drexel fellow says

The Treasury Department this month issued proposed guidelines for the program, which includes 82 zones in Philadelphia, 300 in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Devin Puckett, along with Clyde and Saheir Beatty, empty a bucket of apples into a fruit grinder during the East Park Apple Festival at Woodford Mansion in Fairmount Park. (Kriston Jae Bethel for WHYY)
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Community
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A rainy 2018 yielded soggy fall harvest, Philly growers say

2018 has been one of the wettest years on record for Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Philadelphia Health Commissioner Tom Farley uses a map to illustrate primary care shortages in neighborhoods in the city's Northeast and Southwest. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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Health by zip code? Some Philly neighborhoods are ‘primary care deserts’

A report released Tuesday focused on several shortage areas in primary care access for Philadelphians.

8 years ago

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Vendors sell produce in the Italian Market neighborhood on South 9th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 22, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY, file)
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Urban Planning
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New proposal for Italian Market improvement district introduced

On Monday night, Vern Anastasio and his allies officially pitched the “South Philly Market Improvement District.”

8 years ago

In this 2017 photo, an assembly line laborer works alongside a collaborative robot, left, on a chainsaw production line. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Money
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia safer from job-stealing robots than peer cities, report says

If you work in Philadelphia, your job may be safe from the robots that pundits predict could put one-third of U.S. workers out of a job by 2030.

8 years ago

Oxford Circle - Google Street View
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Roosevelt Boulevard speed cameras represent rare bipartisan win

Between 2011 and 2015, Roosevelt Boulevard’s 16-mile stretch has tallied six percent of the city’s total of crashes and 13 percent of its traffic fatalities.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

For once, let’s celebrate Philly’s clean and green achievements

8 years ago

A rendering of a proposed 2201 E. Somerset St. condo development submitted to Philadelphia's Civic Design Review board. (Atrium Design Group)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Kensington’s hottest address? New homes to rise across from scene of scrapyard fire

Late Wednesday afternoon, Somerset LLC won a variance to enable their plan for the development of 153 housing units

8 years ago

Lisa Strickland and her mother Ann say they love their Eastwick neighborhood. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Urban Planning
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Mapping Philly’s most walkable neighborhoods

Ann Strickland, 87, has lived in the southwest corner of Eastwick for 37 years.

8 years ago

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Urban Planning

SEPTA can’t say exactly how much it pays pension fund managers

8 years ago

A Passyunk Square municipal complex is slated for redevelopment. (Google Maps)
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Urban Planning
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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

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law
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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

Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
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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

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Former Mayor John Street criticizes Kenney’s record on preservation; backs new PAC

8 years ago

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