Economic Development

New federal funding will result in $30 million going towards a more than billion-dollar expansion project at Philadelphia International Airport’s cargo operation.

Delaware concert venues like Wilmington’s The Queen will share more than $30 million in federal grants through the Save our Stages Act.

School funding lawsuits in PA could end up at the Supreme Court. And, worry about your own dinner plate! Anti-diet dietitians talk intuitive eating for Thanksgiving.

The city’s Office of Economic Opportunity reports it fell short of the 35% goal last year. Officials blamed the pandemic, among other challenges.

Each of the properties of concern are owned by municipalities but are said to have for-profit businesses operating on the premises.

Delaware State is the first HBCU to join the U.S. Agency for International Development’s effort to fight food insecurity in Africa and elsewhere.

The federal money for Delaware will allow REACH Riverside to have 350 of the 600 planned homes finished within two years.

DuPont no longer holds the sway it once did over Delaware’s economy, but its legacy of thousands of scientists has the state’s bioscience sector prepped for growth.

P.O.C. of Revive Radio hit the streets of Philadelphia to see how residents are coping with diminished government services caused by widespread labor shortages.

COVID was hard on business owners — especially business owners of color. Philly’s annual Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week offers them a chance to network.

A handful of local universities are among the 25 schools nationwide getting money to help local businesses develop and grow.

About 1 in 10 eateries in Delaware shut down early in the pandemic. Restrictions have been lifted all summer, but some are still hurting.

A coalition of community organizations contend some of the city’s vacant land should go to them rather than to private developers.

Clarke wants to give City Council more power over neighborhood development after a series of zoning decisions that he believed favored developers.

Rite Aid is moving its headquarters to Philadelphia in what it calls a site “designed specifically for in-person collaboration and company gatherings, rather than office space