Neighborhoods

The planned cafe, in the ParkWest Town Center, was touted as a way to train young workers and help earn them college scholarships.

“I think it just speaks to how one person, one small business, can impact so many people,” said the proprietor of a neighboring business.

The neon signage had become something of a landmark. Developers haven’t yet said what they plan to do with the 1950s relic.

Another developer was selected to transform the historic property nearly a decade ago, but the company’s project is still at the starting line.

At the former North Star Bar corner, find beer, food, and cocktails — including a citywide that comes with a dog biscuit.

Using plate-reading and associated software, ticket holders who drive in would be sent to to the lot closest to their route of arrival.

Phil’s Appliances, which opened in the late 1960s, was recently boarded up, and people are thought to have been living inside.

For newcomers, Saturday’s podcast listening party was a history lesson. But for Swarthmore’s historically Black neighborhood, storytelling is a way of resisting erasure.

The Charles Santore branch has been transformed with paintings that celebrate sisterhood and fun.

对于费城的一些小企业主来说，公共安全问题已经以最糟糕的方式改变了商业走廊。

The new Center City spot is a venture by Glu Hospitality, with a chef who trained in Japan and previously had his own restaurants.

A developer walked away from the project after spending nearly a decade trying to breathe new life into the site.

The venture is an offshoot of catering company Chef’s Table. It serves breakfast sandwiches, BBQ, burritos, pizza, and more.

Puppets speak truth to power in this annual tradition organized by art-as-activism group Spiral Q.

The study comes as the Sixers push to build a new arena in Center City Philadelphia.