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Real Estate

An artist's illustration shows an apartment development planned for 1100 Wharton St. (Courtesy Alterra Property Group)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

South Philadelphia developer resists calls for more parking, promises grocery store

Alterra Property Group wants more housing, less parking in South Philadelphia Passyunk Square development, plans grocery store to rival Acme.

6 years ago

This Nov. 29, 2018, photo shows a Wells Fargo bank location in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
PlanPhilly
Courts & Law

Wells Fargo will pay Philadelphia $10M to settle city’s discriminatory lending lawsuit

Wells Fargo Bank and the City of Philadelphia have settled a 2017 lawsuit brought by the city over the bank’s alleged discriminatory lending practices.

6 years ago

PFD Engine 10 in South Philadelphia will be demolished under a plan to build housing on the city land. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Apartments, commercial space proposed for Passyunk firehouse site

Alterra wants to build hundreds of apartments and create new commercial spaces on one of the last major underdeveloped parcels in Passyunk Square.

6 years ago

A Philadelphia roof deck on a snowy morning (Katherine Urbaniak/Flickr)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Brian O’Neill’s bid to ban rooftop decks in Northeast Philly just got killed

Republican Councilmember Brian O’Neill lost his battle to ban all roof decks and limit the height of homes in his Far Northeast Philadelphia district.

6 years ago

City Hall in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City Council caves to mayor’s threat, agrees to push back abatement reform

City Council passed the amended bill, which pushes back implementation of the abatement reform to Dec. 31, 2020.

6 years ago

Activists urge City Council members to vote to end the 10-year property tax abatement. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly Council votes to shrink 10-year abatement, stoking real estate industry doomsday fears

The bill is expected to be approved by the full Council next Thursday, during the last meeting of 2019.

6 years ago

Community
Billy Penn

Real estate and development blog Curbed Philly is shutting down

The local site had been around since 2012.

6 years ago

The view from a dorm room on Stockton's Atlantic City campus. (Bill Barlow for WHYY)
Urban Planning

Atlantic City set to auction off nearly 200 properties

The 194 lots will be auctioned off Dec. 17 at the city’s Convention Center.

6 years ago

Rendering of the homes from Women’s Community Revitalization Project
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Affordable forever? A new kind of housing comes to South Philadelphia

The new Mamie Nichols Homes, masterminded by the Women’s Community Revitalization Project, will be permanently affordable as part of a community land trust

7 years ago

Sara Gallo stands between her home and the new construction next door on November 5, 2019. Due to the demolition and rebuilding of the twin house adjoining hers, her home now suffers structural issues, settling, and leaking. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Fishtowners band together to fight ‘construction destruction,’ work with L&I

Those living in the neighborhood formed a Facebook group, and work with the city’s Department of Licenses & Inspections to fight irresponsible contractors.

7 years ago

Rowhouses line North 29th Street in Philadelphia
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Philly steps up fight against deed fraud with new tools

The City of Philadelphia has unveiled a new online tool that aims to combat deed theft, a growing problem in a city with thousands of vacant or neglected properties.

7 years ago

Jumpstart Germantown participants talk development at a project site. (Courtesy of Jumpstart Germantown)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Show me the money: Jumpstart Philly announces $3 million in loans for neighborhood developers

The program, along with new backing from Reinvestment Fund, aims to help aspiring developers move forward with projects across the city.

7 years ago

Philly skyline above the Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

$12.6 billion: Why the company that built Philly’s skyline is being sold to a California firm

We basically owe Liberty Place, the Comcast towers and the reinvigorated Navy Yard to Liberty Property Trust.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly's Managing Editor, Ariella Cohen, introducing the panel. To her immediate left sits Paul Farber followed by Karyn Olivier, Ori Feibush and Faye Anderson. (Emily Gann/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Listen: Here’s what happened when a real estate developer, an artist, a historian and an activist got together to talk Philly preservation, displacement and culture

Listen to a live conversation between Philly developer Ori Feibush, Paul Farber of Monument Lab, preservationist Faye Anderson and artist Karyn Olivier.

7 years ago

Listen 65:21
Police investigate a 2018 drive-by shooting in Germantown. The City’s Controller has found that a homicide reduces the values of a nearby homes. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Homicide and home values: Why the city controller says Philly needs a fiscal argument to combat murder rate

A new report says that murder in Philadelphia hurts home values. And its authors think the city needs to hear that message to prompt real change.

7 years ago

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