
Real Estate
Community groups call on City Council to make more land available for development
A coalition of community organizations contend some of the city’s vacant land should go to them rather than to private developers.
1 year ago
Council President Darrell Clarke to introduce overhaul of Philly Zoning Board
Clarke wants to give City Council more power over neighborhood development after a series of zoning decisions that he believed favored developers.
1 year ago
Trains made the Main Line. Why are we designing its future around cars?
The Main Line exists because of the railroad. It’s time we change the zoning code to allow people to take advantage of transit.
1 year ago
‘We’re doing it’: Black Philadelphians are diversifying unions. They want support
After several years of seeing Philadelphia fail to meaningfully diversify the city’s booming construction and building trades, Black workers want change.
2 years ago
Promised jobs, North Philly community backs Beury redevelopment on N. Broad
The community benefits agreement marks a first for Shift Capital.
2 years ago
Knockout: Philly design board approves plan for housing at Blue Horizon boxing site
The plan approved by Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review board would put a 13-story apartment tower in the site of the historic boxing ring.
2 years ago
Philly Council limits development on growing Girard Avenue
Philly Council President Darrell Clarke sponsored the bill, citing quality-of-life concerns from residents of the Yorktown and West Poplar neighborhoods.
2 years ago
Delco wants to acquire Don Guanella property via eminent domain for use as a park
The county plans to use eminent domain to take over the 213 acres in Marple Twp., a prime development site owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
2 years ago
Parkway Corp. seeks second injection of state money into Center City tower
The Philadelphia parking garage operator wants more state money for the construction of a downtown office tower that has already broken ground.
2 years ago
Overdevelopment is threatening ‘Everybody’s Hometown,’ Media residents say
Many who live in the Delaware County seat see development swallowing green space and inflating home prices. They fear the small town they knew is no more.
2 years ago
The $64 billion pension fund claimed in a new IRS filing that its previous disclosures were poorly worded and filed in "error."
2 years ago
‘I come from people who put up a fight’: New construction fuels tensions on North 7th Street
A dispute about a damaged wall has stalled a contentious development project in a rapidly gentrifying North Philadelphia neighborhood.
2 years ago
Listen 4:17Philly Councilmembers intro bill to change a developer-friendly housing incentive
Councilmembers Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Jamie Gauthier have introduced a bill to change Philadelphia’s mixed-income housing bonus.
2 years ago
Philly to launch loan fund for Black and brown affordable housing developers
Seeded with roughly $11 million in city funds, the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund aims to finance Black and brown developers to build affordable housing.
2 years ago
Philly Sheriff’s top lawyer retires after illegal contract revelation
Sheriff Rochelle Bilal is saying goodbye to the undersheriff a week after PlanPhilly reported on an illegal contract with an online auction company.
2 years ago