Preservation
Philly’s Spring Garden railroad station to be torn down despite efforts to save it
A successor to the Reading Railroad Company filed permits to demolish the historic train station months after a group filed a conservatorship petition to save it.
5 years ago
New demolition near Jewelers’ Row would take down buildings owned by Philly’s ‘King of Porn’
L&I issued permits clearing the way to demolish a jewelry shop and adjacent commercial building at 8th and Chestnut streets in the city’s historic diamond district.
6 years ago
Berms, blasts, and… dino prints? Bucks quarry hearing continues cross-examination
Springfield Twp. residents’ questions indicated a variety of reasons for opposition that could surface in later arguments, or simply go extinct.
6 years ago
Eyes on the Street
Philly needs to protect public art — and the artists that make it too
Philadelphia stands to lose more than murals if the city, employers, and cultural institutions don’t do more to support the artists that create them.
6 years ago
NJ Spotlight
N.J. Assembly panel clears bill requiring stewardship plans for public forests
Environmentalists object, saying the measure would mean more logging and more habitat loss.
6 years ago
Isaiah Zagar’s Painted Bride mosaic could survive in new plan for Old City site
The latest plans to redevelop the Old City Painted Bride HQ include the iconic tilework, marking a departure from past plans to tear down the mosaic.
6 years ago
Demolition in Philly dropped by half in 2020 — Is that a good thing?
The finding cheers preservationists but forecasts a possible slowdown in development in the city heading in 2021.
6 years ago
This week: City Council President Darrell Clarke on the construction tax, Sara Goldrick-Rab on student debt forgiveness, and a teenage genealogist solving family mysteries.
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‘Great for the local economy’: Montco permanently preserves three farms
Currently, 175 farms, or about 10,000 acres, are preserved from future development through Montgomery County’s Agricultural Land Preservation Program.
6 years ago
The new regulations limit building height and ban some exterior building materials as well as roof decks.
6 years ago
15-month-old giraffe ‘Bea’ joins the herd at Philadelphia Zoo
Bea, a 15-month-old female, arrived at the Philadelphia Zoo on Nov. 20, from Zoo Knoxville in Tennessee.
6 years ago
Funding questions remain amid new effort to preserve open space in northern Delaware
Increasing development has long been an issue in Delaware’s most populous county. Now New Castle County leaders have new guidance on how to better preserve open space.
6 years ago
UN calls on humanity to end ‘war on nature,’ go carbon-free
The head of the United Nations is calling on countries to end what he calls a war on nature and instead embrace a future without carbon pollution triggering global warming.
6 years ago
Endangered lemur exhibit opens as part of major expansion at Delaware’s only zoo
The Brandywine Zoo’s new lemur exhibit is part of a species survival plan and is one step in the biggest capital improvement plan in the zoo’s 115-year history.
6 years ago
Sigma Studios, birthplace of the Philly Sound, wins spot on city’s historic register
The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted unanimously to add Sigma Studios to the local Register of Historic Places.
6 years ago