“It was an empty lot; concrete,” said Irene McKallop. “There wasn’t anything there. It was nothing, it was all cement.”

The fast-growing Lower Merion School District will enroll as many as 700 new students over the next decade.

Philadelphia's hotly anticipated, High Line-esque Rail Park will open to the public on June 14 with a new leader and freshly installed benches for summertime people watching.

On Aug. 11, the city will close off traffic on both sides of North Broad from City Hall up to Erie Avenue.

On Thursday, city officials gathered at LOVE Park to dedicate the southeast corner as Bank of America plaza and garden in recognition of a $250,000 donation from them.

The way the rules are enforced isn't always consistent which is how unconscious bias and discrimination can creep in.

After the sexy newness of a pop-up leaves town, can neighborhoods sustain the benefits for local businesses?

In Germantown coffee shop, a counterpoint to Rittenhouse Square Starbucks incident

Joe Zuritsky, CEO of a parking lot chain, has a second life as an artisan of koi. He has donated his prized fish to the Shofuso Japanese House in Fairmount Park.

This is the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture has preserved grasslands in New Jersey.

“We’re on a crisis right now,” said Lan Dihn, a member of Philadelphia’s Food Policy Council’s urban agriculture subcommittee and farm director at VietLead

The Free Library of Philadelphia will receive electronic kiosks that print and dispense short stories.

The Department of Parks and Recreation is working with the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Friends of FDR Park on a master plan.

Here is some of the talkback we got on social media about our gentrification series.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., raised his voice as he noted that the alleged Parkland shooter, Nikolas Cruz, 'didn't slip through one crack, he slipped through every crack.'