Economic Development

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

After more than six years of development, the long-awaited W Philadelphia hotel at 1439 Chestnut St. will open on Friday.

“This deal signals to the world that our democracy can function,” Biden said in a statement. “We will once again transform America and propel us into the future.”

President Joe Biden will head to the Allentown area Wednesday as he fights for passage in the Senate of a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure measure.