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Changing Communities

Awilda Ocasio’s sons Edgardo Colón (left) and Marco López look up at Ann Northrup’s “Heart of Kensington” mural at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues on Feb. 25, 2019. Ocasio is pictured at the center of the mural surrounded by children. (Solmaira Valerio/Kensington Voice)
Community
Kensington Voice

Awilda Ocasio: The ‘Mother Teresa of Kensington’

Two years after her death, a neighborhood activist's legacy of love lives on.

7 years ago

The Rev. Clarence Hester and CDC President Tinamarie Russell hope to use the development at North Broad and Indiana Avenue to spark an economic revival for the neighborhood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Neighbors want a role in building North Station District

The planned North Station District development could reshape North Philly for decades to come. Neighbors are organizing for construction jobs and other benefits.

7 years ago

 Lucinda Hudson at the site where Starbucks plans to put a new location, a first for the neighborhood. (Aaron Moselle/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Parkside leaders welcome the neighborhood’s first Starbucks

The ‘community store’ version of the coffeeshop in Parkside will have space for local groups and hire from neighborhood.

7 years ago

Attendants watch the showcase of a live video conference during an open house event at the Northern Pennsylvanian Regional College in Warren, Pa. (Photo by Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Challenged by college cost and access, students in rural Pa. find tech-based alternative

Students in rural Pennsylvania face two big obstacles to college completion: cost and access. A new college is out to change that.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman asks for a show of hands with all in favor of adult recreational use marijuana at the conclusion of a listening session on recreational marijuana with community members Mar. 2, 2019, at Penn State Scranton in Dunmore, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Support for legal marijuana defies party politics in Pa. — among residents, not lawmakers

With signals from the Wolf administration, momentum is building for legalizing marijuana in Pennsylvania, but top lawmakers have vowed to block the effort.

7 years ago

Listen 3:55
David Kitner works inside his pizza shop in Middletown on Friday, March 1, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Pos)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Why one pizza shop owner is worried about Three Mile Island closing — but some don’t see a major impact

Three Mile Island accounts for 10 to 15 percent of the annual revenue at Roberto’s Pizza & Subs in Middletown.

7 years ago

The rezoning bill was introduced by City Council President Darrell Clarke in January after stones fell from the church’s facade and forced neighboring St. Laurentius School to close for three days. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

City wants to rezone St. Laurentius and sidestep legal drama

The City Planning Commission recommended a spot zoning bill that would allow St. Laurentius Church in Fishtown to become apartments without any further public approvals.

7 years ago

Emanuel Lutheran Church, more recently Phat Quang Buddhist Temple, on 4th Street in Queen Village. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Buddhist monks cash out with ‘secret’ sale of historic South Philly church

A 150-year-old Queen Village church turned Buddhist temple is on a path toward residential reincarnation.

7 years ago

After his company's response to the Parkland shooting, Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack became an unlikely corporate face of gun control. (Scott Dalton/Invision for DICK'S Sporting Goods/AP Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Soul-searching after Parkland, Dick’s CEO embraces tougher stance on guns

Ed Stack is a gun owner who was a longtime Republican donor. A year after Dick's Sporting Goods became an unlikely face of gun control, it sees the fallout from its policy.

7 years ago

The rezoning bill was introduced by City Council President Darrell Clarke in January after stones fell from the church’s facade and forced neighboring St. Laurentius School to close for three days. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Fishtown’s St. Laurentius church cleared for redevelopment

A judge’s ruling on Tuesday paves the way for a long-contested redevelopment of St. Laurentius, a crumbling Catholic church in Philadelphia’s growing Fishtown neighborhood.

7 years ago

A rendering of future affordable housing in Point Breeze (Women's Community Revitalization Project)
Urban Planning
Broke in Philly

Taking on gentrification with a community land trust in Point Breeze

The WCRP is building five new houses that’ll be affordable for the foreseeable future.

7 years ago

Frank Menendez, 54, of Long Island, New York, joined the NRA at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg. (Ed Mahon / PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Community
PA Post

Why one gun owner decided to finally join the NRA

‘I have no choice but to help them. That’s the way it seems,’ said a gun owner at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg.

7 years ago

A rendering shows a redeveloped Gretz Brewery on Germantown Avenue. (Courtesy of T+ Associates)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Gretz Brewery redevelopment in Kensington returns to drawing board

The latest plans for the five-story brewery include 220 apartments, five retail storefronts and 42 parking spots.

7 years ago

Lowell Elementary does not have a playground. The public school is partnering with the nonprofit Trust for Public Land to build one. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
Uneven Play

Why your neighborhood school probably doesn’t have a playground

Research shows kids benefit from playgrounds, but 2/3 of Philadelphia public elementary schools don’t have playgrounds. To build them, schools are relying on private funders.

7 years ago

Listen 5:50
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building, 2014
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Provident Mutual building redevelopment to move forward with Blackwell’s support

A developer’s plan to transform the former Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. building into a sprawling health campus will move forward with Jannie Blackwell's support.

7 years ago

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