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Economic Development

Beach goers taking in the sun. (Bill Barlow/for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Money
NJ Spotlight

How to boost Jersey Shore tourism: End state diversion of revenue for a start

The state’s lucrative tourism industry could get a significant bump if it stretched out its prime shore season past the summer months.

8 years ago

Listen 5:21
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Vendors keep working despite L&I crackdown at Made in America

8 years ago

A rendering of the latest design for a residential and office development slated to replace a parking lot on the corner of 8th and Vine streets.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

New plans for Chinatown development show a lush park

The proposed development will replace a city-owned parking bounded by Race Street and the Vine Street Expressway, between Eighth and Ninth Streets.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly’s only majority black building trades union planning move from the ‘burbs to North Broad

8 years ago

The 93-year-old Cherry Street Pier is being transformed into a public space with artists' studios.
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

Artists taking up residence as Cherry Street pier readies for October opening

The Cherry Street Pier on the Delaware River waterfront is expected to open Oct. 12 with an open-air park, marketplace, food service and bar, and an artists colony.

8 years ago

The neighborhood around the outdoor Italian Market is now dotted with taquerias and is home to an estimated 20,000 Mexican residents. (Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times)
Community
WNYC News

Leaving New York to find the American Dream in Philadelphia

This New York-Philadelphia migration, fueled by a quest for cheaper living, has long existed.

8 years ago

A May 2017 kickoff event for PennAssist's pre-employment program, which had a younger group of 44 participants
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

These pre-employment programs could be a model for Rebuild’s jobs goals

The Advanced Manufacturing Boot Camp, along with PennAssist, a program that launched in summer 2017, are viewed as experimental models for what Rebuild aims to accomplish.

8 years ago

The former GM plant near Newport, Delaware has been vacant since 2009. New plans for a logistics and fulfillment center at the site could bring 2,000 new jobs to the area. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
First
Community

Hopes for rebirth at former Delaware auto plant

After a decade of dormancy, the former GM vehicle assembly plant near Newport is about to get a multi-million dollar overhaul.

8 years ago

Listen 5:32
Celebrities and VIPs smash guitars as part of the grand opening celebration at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City Thursday. Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to the gritty seaside gambling resort as two of its shuttered casinos reopened with more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Rebounding from a losing streak, Atlantic City celebrates two new casinos

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Ocean Resort Casino both hosted festivities Thursday to officially open their doors to gamblers and hotel guests.

8 years ago

Listen 2:14
GrowPA aims to grow the state's economy to address the unemployment rate; lessen the burden on the state budget; and reverse the population decline. (Big Stock photo)
Politics & Policy

Joining together to help Pennsylvania grow

This isn’t a political fight. It’s not a partisan struggle. It’s not about political victories or punishment. It’s about opportunity.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Looking at Philadelphia from the prism of `The Divided City’

8 years ago

A large crane looms over the 1400 block of Chestnut Avenue.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Construction tax’s fate uncertain as City Council wraps up for summer

The fate of a proposed 1 percent construction tax for Philadelphia remained up in the air Thursday, during the last City Council session before the summer recess.

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Community

Report: Jobs in efficiency, renewables grow while clean transportation lags

A new report shows that jobs in most parts of Pennsylvania’s clean energy industry grew over the past year.

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

81 new tax-free sites OK’d by City Council committee

8 years ago

A screen-capture from a video posted on YouTube by Wildwood Video Archive of the MV Twin Capes sinking last Friday.
Down the Shore
Community

Cape May-Lewes ferry sunk to expand artificial reef

A ferry boat that once transported countless people and vehicles between New Jersey and Delaware is on another mission after it was sunk last Friday.

8 years ago

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