PlanPhilly Archive

Emergency management officials plan to use 13 libraries and 21 rec centers as cooling centers this summer.

The decision follows a string of shootings by landlord-tenant officers over the last several months.

The suit seeks to bar SBG Management Services from renewing lease agreements and collecting rent until all properties are repaired.

Crews are expected to start this week on improving the intersection of Broad Street, Germantown Avenue, and Erie Avenue.

Drought declarations are not just based on rain. They also consider soil moisture, stream flow, and groundwater, which tends to lag behind rain.

Officials with the borough of Conshohocken claim they were blindsided by the move and reject any alternatives proposed by SEPTA.

Prices remain high, but aren’t growing at the rate they were during the pandemic.

Weekend pedestrian traffic in downtown Philadelphia during May was 94% of what it was in 2019, according to cell phone data compiled by the Center City District.

The affordable housing complex in West Philly is nearly empty roughly two years after owners announced its closure.

Even leisure and hospitality, which has been slower to recover since the pandemic began, has seen a full recovery.

New Courtland hopes to bring one-bedroom apartments for seniors and retail space to the site.

Every four years, PECO makes a plan to buy electricity for its customers. Climate activists want the utility to do something different the next time around.

In the past five years, the median sale price for a home in Pa. nearly doubled, data from the state realtors association shows.

The incident comes roughly three months after a woman was shot during an attempted lockout in another neighborhood.

An analysis by INRIX shows congestion was localized and has largely dissipated.