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Economic Development

The University of Delaware's STAR Campus in Newark helps connect students, teachers and researchers with partners in commercial industry and the community. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Money

Univ. of Delaware, Penn State, Lehigh U. snag federal funds to boost local economic growth

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

4 years ago

Server Lacey Crosby said he's happy to be working, despite the challenges
Community

Restaurants struggle with staffing, supply issues, and a recipe to recover from the pandemic

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

4 years ago

Listen 4:26
Protesters outside City Hall calling for vacant land to be given for community development
Urban Planning

Community groups call on City Council to make more land available for development

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

4 years ago

Two young men walk past a rehab project in Strawberry Mansion, in 2018.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Council President Darrell Clarke to introduce overhaul of Philly Zoning Board

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

4 years ago

A Rite Aid Pharmacy sign
Money

Rite Aid moving headquarters to Philadelphia

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

4 years ago

W Hotel Philadelphia
Urban Planning
Philadelphia Business Journal

After 6 years of development, W Philadelphia hotel set to open Friday with plenty of local flavor

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

4 years ago

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the Lehigh Valley operations facility for Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pa., Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Politics & Policy

Infrastructure deal: Senate ready to move ahead on $1T bill

“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.”

4 years ago

President Joe Biden delivers a speech. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Politics & Policy

Biden to bring infrastructure sales pitch to Pennsylvania

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.

4 years ago

Wilmington Alliance's Laura Semmelroth, entrepreneur Derrick Allen, and Pastor Chelsea Spyres
Community

Wilmington Kitchen Collective connects religious and corporate backers to aid culinary entrepreneurs

A rare combination of religious and corporate groups hopes to use a commercial kitchen in a church basement to support Wilmington’s future restaurateurs.

4 years ago

Listen 4:13
Gov. Tom Wolf signs the coronavirus disaster declaration. (Office of Gov. Tom Wolf)
Politics & Policy

Wolf signs bill to extend pandemic regulatory waivers

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the bill unanimously, at Wolf’s urging.

4 years ago

Claire DeMatteis is leaving her post as Delaware corrections commissioner. Monroe B. Hudson Jr. has been nominated to succeed her. (State of Delaware)
Politics & Policy

Delaware’s first female prisons chief leaving to oversee spending of $2 billion in COVID-19 stimulus money

Claire DeMatteis is moving to a new job after guiding the Department of Correction through a tumultuous four-plus years, since a prison riot left a guard dead.

4 years ago

During a meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., on Wednesday, President Biden opened the door to laying aside his original proposal to help pay for infrastructure investments by raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden and Sen. Capito try again to bridge their infrastructure divide

The White House said Thursday that Biden still supports raising the tax rate, but is willing to find another measure to do it.

4 years ago

The Cape May-Lewes Ferry (Elisabeth Perez-Luna/WHYY)
Community

Ferry link means big business for beach towns in Delaware and New Jersey

New study shows the multi-million dollar impact the Cape May/Lewes Ferry has on the local economy — an impact beach businesses hope ramps up post-pandemic.

4 years ago

Artist renderings show plans for the redevelopment of the east side of the Wilmington Riverfront along the Christina River. (courtesy Friends of Riverfront Wilmington)
Urban Planning

$100 million overhaul planned for Wilmington’s ‘other’ riverfront

Delaware leaders hope to mirror the success of the Wilmington Riverfront with a massive development plan for the other side of the Christina River.

4 years ago

People, some holding signs, participate in a protest demanding Pa. pay out their unemployment benefits
Money

Unemployed Pennsylvanians demand benefits amid growing backlog of claims

Protesters, including Democratic state lawmakers, called on the Wolf administration to pay unemployment benefits to hundreds of thousands of residents.

5 years ago

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