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Protesters outside City Hall calling for vacant land to be given for community development
Urban Planning

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

Two young men walk past a rehab project in Strawberry Mansion, in 2018.
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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

The Paoli Local railroad station as seen in an archival photograph.
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Eyes on the Street

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

Robert Paul smiles for a photo
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‘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

A rendering of the Beury development project
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Promised jobs, North Philly community backs Beury redevelopment on N. Broad

The community benefits agreement marks a first for Shift Capital.

2 years ago

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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

Transforming the Route 15 trolley into a bus route (to avoid double-parked cars) is among suggested changes.
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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

Delaware County will acquire the wooded 213-acre site at Sproul Road and Reed Road in Marple Township that was home to the Don Guanella School. The property is owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Urban Planning

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

An artist's rendering shows an 18-story Parkway Corp. development proposed for 2230 Market Street. (Parkway Corp./Center City District)
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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

Signs posted in yards around Media, Pa., decry development in the area. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

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

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Facing FBI probe, PSERS backtracks on disclosure that staffers were on both sides of real estate dealings

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

Clarice Brooks points to damage on the side of her home caused by construction on North 7th Street. The house has been owned by her family for 66 years. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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‘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

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Philly 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

Real estate developer Anthony Fullard. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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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

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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

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