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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.
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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Economic Development

A rendering of a complex planned for North Broad, near the Rail Park. Neighbors want the developer to put a public bathroom in the project's public plaza. (Courtesy of Toll Brothers/Barton Partners Architects/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Will Toll Brothers build Philadelphia’s first corporate-owned public bathroom?

Callowhill neighbors want a developer to address a persistent neighborhood problem: no place to pee.

6 years ago

The renovated interior of a Navy Yard building. The former base was remade under the leadership of outgoing PIDC President John Grady. (PIDC)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Who can replace PIDC’s John Grady, mastermind of Philly’s Navy Yard?

John Grady’s departure from PIDC leaves a vacancy at the top of a powerful local institution. A successor is expected to be announced in January.

6 years ago

956 Erie Avenue is a 19-acre property that’s being developed into a industrial space by Maken Studios.  (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Safer streets are part of Shift Capital’s $20 million Crown Can plant remake

New bus shelters, a bicycle lane, street lighting and other improvements will come with Shift Capital’s $20 million Juniata Park development.

6 years ago

Downtown Newark has been transformed since the completion of NJPAC in 1997. (Twenty20)
Community

Could Newark’s lead problems affect investment, development in resurgent city?

Health concerns are paramount. As those are being addressed, business interests seem to be weathering the storm

6 years ago

Fireworks over the Delaware River celebrate SugarHouse rebranding as Rivers Casino Philadelphia (Courtesy of Rivers Casino Philadelphia)
Community
Billy Penn

A decade in, are casinos good or bad for Philadelphia?

SugarHouse is expanding and more gaming halls are coming. They give back cash, but may also enable gambling addiction.

6 years ago

A new law paves the way for a hotel tax that would go to the DETurf sports facility south of Dover. (Butch Comegys for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Law to give taxpayer money to Delaware sports facility would benefit sponsor’s brother

State Sen. John Paradee’s bill would direct tax money to a youth sports complex, possibly benefiting his brother’s planned hotel/shopping project.

6 years ago

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Lottie Lee stands in a vacant lot that will soon become 18 rental units and 16,000 sq. ft. of commercial space. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Urban Planning

JPMorgan Chase funds to help expand development in Wilmington neighborhoods

A vacant lot on the city’s West Side will soon be transformed into rental units and commercial space, thanks to a $4 million in funding from the bank.

6 years ago

Jumpstart Germantown participants talk development at a project site. (Courtesy of Jumpstart Germantown)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Show me the money: Jumpstart Philly announces $3 million in loans for neighborhood developers

The program, along with new backing from Reinvestment Fund, aims to help aspiring developers move forward with projects across the city.

6 years ago

Philly's Italian Market
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Italian Market BID dead after opponents raise voices

A proposed business improvement district (BID) that divided Italian Market property owners, tenants, and residents won’t advance in 2019.

6 years ago

Philly skyline above the Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

$12.6 billion: Why the company that built Philly’s skyline is being sold to a California firm

We basically owe Liberty Place, the Comcast towers and the reinvigorated Navy Yard to Liberty Property Trust.

6 years ago

(Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Community
Billy Penn

Most of Philly’s new jobs are being added in low-wage industries

The city’s workforce growth is mostly in positions that pay $35,000 or less.

6 years ago

A look at the facility at Cairns Family Farm on Sept. 25, 2019, in Sadsbury Township, Pennsylvania. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania invests in crops for brewing and distilling

Pennsylvania is betting on booze to grow the economy. The Department of Agriculture plans to award $460,000 in grants, most of which can be used to make craft beverages.

6 years ago

Matt Lindenmuth, founder of the Larimer Beer Company, holds the company’s latest creation “Bird Gang IPA” which debuted Oct. 13. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Community

Chester brewery hopes to hire city residents as it expands

The Larimer Beer Company hopes to hire residents from the City of Chester as they expand their footprint in the city.

6 years ago

Lucy, a domestic worker, cleans the home of one of her clients in late July 2019. (Emily Neil/AL DÍA News)
Community
Broke in Philly

Domestic workers in Philadelphia fight for rights, recognition

What will the Philadelphia Domestic Worker Bill of Rights change — and why has it taken so long for one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. to have labor protections?

6 years ago

Judy Ni and Oscar Wang introduced the idea for HospitalityTogether at the Full City Challenge in February 2019 (Kait Moore Photography)
Community
Billy Penn

Philly’s new work-to-college pipeline gives first gen students a second chance

HospitalityTogether helps young adults hold down restaurant jobs while also attending school.

6 years ago

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