PlanPhilly Archive

Wearing the flat sneakers they skate in, the self-appointed streets team poured in wet cement and smoothed the surfaces.

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.

The City of Philadelphia released what may be its most ambitious and concretely detailed transportation plan yet on Wednesday.

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.

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.

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.

If you feed them, they will come.

Other cities offer free transit on Election Day: Dallas, Houston, Tampa, Minneapolis, Austin, and Asheville, among others.

The $7,500 grant from Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund will help develop a prototype bike corral

 City Council passed a package of housing bills on Thursday after over a year of debate.

How long does it take to build a bike lane?

In a few years time, Market Street in Old City may look brand new, thanks to a $3 million state grant announced Tuesday.

It was a schoolhouse where Revolutionary-era leaders offered a "polite education" to young men in the then-new city of Philadelphia

The organizers are calling for the city to supercharge its annual contribution to the library budget by more than 36 percent