Economic Development

Delaware has made a preliminary agreement with the world’s largest independent, privately-owned port operator to invest more than $500 million in the Port of Wilmington.

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works R.D. James toured the Port of Wilmington, as well as the former Chemours Edgemoor site.

As workers began tearing down 10 abandoned houses along Bennett Street, Wilmington leaders celebrate fourth round in a long-term effort to raze derelict properties.

“Sometimes people have the misconception that what happens in Washington stays in Washington, but these cuts would have an effect right here on 5th street,” Boyle said.

No one could argue that Olney, in upper North Philadelphia, is gentrifying. But that doesn’t mean the neighborhood isn’t revitalizing.

The reinvention of Society Hill in the 1960s is widely considered one of the first instances of gentrification — although no one called it that at the time.

As neighborhoods gentrify, there is a complex web of effects — some positive, some negative. This week WHYY is examining those changes from the ground up.

As one Delaware area's population continues growing, New Castle County officials are working to beef up some basic services.

The state Department of Environmental Protection recently halted work on Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline. That’s too bad. The project is critically important infrastructure.

Bradford is a historic town on the northern Pennsylvania border. An empty storefront will soon be one of the state’s medical marijuana clinics.

New research from Penn State finds as incomes dropped and unemployment rose, communities suffered higher rates of opioid-related deaths.