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The Philadelphia skyline is seen from the Market Frankford platform at 63rd Street
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA board approves more spending on Key card

It’s been a costly journey for SEPTA’s fare card. The latest contract adjustment bumps up the amount paid out to Conduent to $208 million.

5 years ago

40th Street’s Trolley Portal Gardens
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Eyes on the Street

How Philly transformed a trolley station into a garden

40th Street’s Trolley Portal Gardens is a perfect example of how greening transit spaces in Philadelphia is good for the economy, communities, and our city.

5 years ago

Robert Paul smiles for a photo
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘We’re doing it’: Black Philadelphians are diversifying unions. They want support

After several years of seeing Philadelphia fail to meaningfully diversify the city’s booming construction and building trades, Black workers want change.

5 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Park at Penn's Landing.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Groundbreaking on Penn’s Landing park over I-95 highway trench pushed back two years

The delay is the latest chapter in a saga that began decades ago when state planners bulldozed communities to build the river-blocking highway.

5 years ago

A rendering of the Beury development project
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Promised jobs, North Philly community backs Beury redevelopment on N. Broad

The community benefits agreement marks a first for Shift Capital.

5 years ago

Transit security officers work on the platform of the Girard stop
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA extends its $1.5M contract for security guards on Market-Frankford Line

The agency will keep 60 unarmed guards, posted between 15th Street Station and Frankford Transportation Center, beyond the planned 90-day term.

5 years ago

An artist's rendering shows the Benjamin Franklin Parkway as reimagined by the Philadelphia firm DIGSAU and DLANDstudio of New York. (DIGSAU and DLANDstudio)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘Hot mess of cars’ to ‘holistic’: Designers offer a kinder Ben Franklin Parkway

The winning concepts focused on permanent pedestrian improvements for the infamously auto-centric parkway. A panel will eventually select a single plan.

5 years ago

Renell Powell hands out lunches outside her home
PlanPhilly
Community

After a shooting, a grandmother reopens her SW Philly block as a ‘safe zone’ for play

Alden Street residents worked through their trauma together after the fatal shooting. One resident called her block “a village looking after the children.”

5 years ago

(image via Proterra)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

SEPTA’s cracking battery buses raise questions about the future of electric transit

SEPTA was bullish on battery-powered electric buses. But $2.6 million and 25 broken buses later, the agency is rethinking its approach.

5 years ago

The exterior of the former Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament building
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

I grew up in West Philly churches. Please stop tearing down my landmarks

West Philly’s 140-year-old Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is set to be demolished, erasing local Black history and memory, writes resident Kyle Hiller.

5 years ago

A racial slur etched into the dirt on a privacy fence at the Essex condominium complex in Mount Laurel, N.J., appears to be directed at Ron Howard, president of the homeowners association. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Before the viral video, Black Mount Laurel residents rewrote the law on fair housing

Mount Laurel’s Black community has roots that trace back to the Revolutionary War and a legacy that has shaped housing development across the country.

5 years ago

A rendering of the proposed Park at Penn's Landing.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly is capping I-95 at Penn’s Landing. Could Nicetown or Chinatown be next?

Washington could help heal Philly neighborhoods torn apart by highways with a new $3 billion funding bil.

5 years ago

De'Wayne Drummond picks up a grill left behind after a crash at 34th Street and Mantua Avenue
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

After decades of crashes and neglected roads, West Philly in line for repair funds

West Philadelphia neighborhoods would see safety improvements on Mantua Avenue, Chestnut Street and Cobbs Creek Parkway if the INVEST in America Act passes.

5 years ago

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A file photo shows a SEPTA worker repairing a trolley track during a cleaning blitz. (SEPTA)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Trolley blitz: SEPTA to close busted Philly tunnels for 17-day glow up

The trolley tunnels below downtown Philly and University City need some TLC. SEPTA crews will work around-the-clock for the next 17 days to make it happen.

5 years ago

Tents set up by people experiencing homelessness along Kensington Avenue
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Housing activists drop lawsuit against Kenney administration over encampment sweeps

Housing activists withdrew a lawsuit against Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration over a plan to allegedly displace people living in a Kensington encampment.

5 years ago

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