PlanPhilly Archive

After COVID-19 shut down travel for much of 2020, an ensuing rental car shortage is remaking Philly’s summer 2021 plans — and sparking some new businesses.

Philly throws legendary block parties. Here are the tips you need to know to master summer’s favorite urban art form.

Philadelphia elected officials urge residents to apply for rental assistance as the courts resume lockouts and the federal eviction moratorium is set to expire Saturday.

ACT UP, which organizes weekly housing protests near Mayor Kenney’s Old City apartment, said this was the first to be dispersed by law enforcement.

New research published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that repairing even one home can reduce crime by 21.9% on the block.

Can documentaries change a city? A group of Philadelphia media-makers believes so, and they have the pitches to prove it.

There’s currently no municipal composting program in Philadelphia. Advocates say this is a good start.

Visit the people and places that shape their neighborhoods and communities as told through PlanPhilly’s The 47: Historias along a bus route series.

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.

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.

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

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

The community benefits agreement marks a first for Shift Capital.

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

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