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The former Gallery Mall parking garage has been transformed into the Parkade at 8th. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Parking Authority chief Petri offers up a sweeping legislative agenda for change

For most of the Parking Authority’s history, its legislative agenda was little more than maintaining the status quo.

8 years ago

Listen 3:06
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Floating a solution to Philadelphia’s parking-space quandary

8 years ago

A worker cleans the ornate limestone capitals of the East Portico at 30th Street Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Facade work refreshes 30th Street Station as Amtrak shops its commercial-district plan

Engineers and architects overseeing the project detailed the great lengths they’ve had to go to in order to faithfully restore the riverside Art Deco icon.

8 years ago

Listen 2:04
Kelli McIntyre and Andy Trackman check out walking conditions along Germantown Avenue during a FeetFirstPhilly walk audit. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

What a walk along Germantown Avenue reveals: Tough going for pedestrians

Kelli McIntyre stood in light rain on Germantown Avenue, holding a clipboard and watching as car after car ignored a “Do Not Enter” sign

8 years ago

Heitzman Playground, in Harrowgate. (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Now that court has ruled, a resurgent Rebuild selects Harrowgate playground for rehab

In addition to improving the facilities’ themselves, Rebuild has been billed as a project that would enhance equity and economic development throughout the city.

8 years ago

Youngsters try out the new swings at Lanier Playground during a tour in advance of its official reopening. 
 Malcolm Burnley/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Grays Ferry’s long-closed Lanier Playground reopens, with new hope and new purpose

Located in the heart of Grays Ferry, Lanier Playground had been closed since 05, but memories of when it brimmed with activity stayed alive in longtime neighborhood residents

8 years ago

(Steve Teare for Broke In Philly/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

The high cost of being broke: Transportation

On the 11th floor of a Center City office building, Rian Franks and Jacqueline Chapman sit just a few feet away from each other. B ...

8 years ago

People of Japanese ancestry arrive at the assembly center at Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, Calif., in 1942 for internment. (National Archives and Records Administration)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history

It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly Free Streets, Part 3, moves to North Broad on Aug. 11

8 years ago

Neighbors turn out for a recent Tacony Creek block party. (Photo courtesy of TTF Watershed Partnership)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

With Labor Day just ahead, Philly makes block-party permit seekers work harder

Philly loves a good block party.

8 years ago

In June, details were announced for a renovation memorializing the Bethel AME burial ground under Weccacoe Playground. (PlanPhilly/file)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground

Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.

8 years ago

Gregorio Pac Cojulun (left), and Dan Schupsky, an outreach specialist, stroll along one of the new sidewalks. (Meir Rinde/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Rain, rain flows away, no longer puddles at Malcolm X Park

As happens on many blocks around the city, heavy rains used to turn the southeast corner of Malcolm X Memorial Park in West Philadelphia into a deep puddle.

8 years ago

A poster board with residents' comments at SEPTA's Route 49 open house last year. (Jim Saksa/WHYY News)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

In Philly, planners increasingly want to talk with you, not at you

Public planning meetings can be contentious, to say the least.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

The state of art galleries is changing in Philly’s Old City

8 years ago

Jeremy Nowak
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

An appreciation: Jeremy Nowak challenged assumptions about what was impossible

Jeremy Nowak lived to challenge dusty assumptions and the soft thinking that emerges from the comforts of ideology.

8 years ago

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