PlanPhilly Archive

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

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.

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

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

The intent was to remediate -- through a nine-month community-based study exploring what could and should be done with almost 200 acres of public land in the neighborhood

They are suing the market's owner, Glengarry Properties, saying it has violated an almost 40-year-old deed-restricted covenant on the land.

In Philadelphia, fears about development and neighborhood change are often couched in terms of rising home values and increasing property taxes.

According to Philadelphia’s heat-vulnerability index, Hunting Park is one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and one of the most vulnerable to heat's negative effects.

Poor-quality houses and unusually high poverty tilt the equation so that demand far outstrips supply here, making affordable homes hard to obtain and difficult to manage.

Funding schools is not the PPA’s primary mission, executive director Scott Petri said.