PlanPhilly Archive

The average residential customer that uses PECO’s default service will see their monthly bill go down by around $5 starting Dec. 1.

Another developer was selected to transform the historic property nearly a decade ago, but the company’s project is still at the starting line.

The neighborhood high school closed in 2013 along with nearly two dozen others.

Volunteers are needed to help PHS Tree Tenders groups plant 1,800 trees in Philly and surrounding suburbs.

“Philadelphia needs Vision Zero more than ever," said one advocate.

The city of Philadelphia will not move forward with the project unless negative impacts on Delaware County are addressed, an official said.

PGW customers’ gas bills go up at the end of November. But the rate increase regulators OK’d is much smaller than what PGW asked for.

The museum needs variances to continue operating out of private residence in Germantown.

The news comes after a string of demonstrations, a federal lawsuit, and a protest encampment.

A developer walked away from the project after spending nearly a decade trying to breathe new life into the site.

The group of gardeners and advocates hopes to hold a similar conversation with Republican mayoral candidate David Oh.

Piers 38 and 40 will be part of a new development from Bart Blatstein.

“The community has to have a determining voice,” one critic said. “This policy doesn't do that.”

The study comes as the Sixers push to build a new arena in Center City Philadelphia.

Over $4 million in federal grant money will flow to nonprofits and local governments to support environmental justice in the Philly region.