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Fresh food and "connectivity" coming soon to Front and Norris
A small grocery store and cafe with free wi-fi, take-out or eat-in American and Middle Eastern dishes and free community space is set to soon open at the corner of Front…
Blue Horizon's transformation into a hotel with spa, jazz club and restaurant gets planners' approval
Mosaic Development Partners came a step closer to turning a legendary North Broad Street boxing venue into a boutique hotel with restaurants and a jazz club. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission…
Planning Commission accepts "quality of life" plan for Eastern North Philadelphia
The Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha – otherwise known as The Association of Puerto Ricans on the March or simply APM – has worked to improve Eastern North Philadelphia neighborhoods for…
Ideas for the Columbia Avenue Connector project
The Columbia Avenue of the future will likely be lined with trees, but just how many specimens remains under discussion.Some neighbors of the Fishtown street are concerned about sacrificing parking…
Incoming First District Councilman Mark Squilla says East Market Street is his first priority
Today, Philadelphia's First Council District is represented by someone new: Whitman native Mark Squilla, 49, who takes over the job held by veteran councilman Frank DiCicco, who decided not to seek…
Grants allow city planners to study transportation on Washington Ave., transit-oriented development in East Kensington
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission will next year study the future of transportation along major corridors in two changing neighborhoods.Two Transportation and Community Development Initiative grants awarded to the PCPC…
Full riverfront master plan soon to be released. Can the decades-long schedule be halved?
Two weeks from Monday, the full draft of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware Waterfront will be published on the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation website. It will be ready for…
Sidewalk encroachments for two restaurant projects get planning commission nod, but spur philosophical discussion
Wolfgang Puck wants to open a restaurant at the Kimmel Center.The Philadelphia City Planning Commission gave its approval to zoning legislation that Kimmel Center reps say paves the way for…
Riverfront vision comes to life
The evolution of Philadelphia's Central Delaware Waterfront will spread outward from four areas containing pockets of land already in the city's control, those assembling the document that will guide the changes…
Public wants well-lit underpasses and under-highway recreation and dog parks
I-95 underpasses should be flooded with light . Fancier lighting, defining the passageway that connects a neighborhood with the waterfront, would be even better. Walls should be camouflaged with plants, where…
PennDOT design workshop participants to talk about river connections, new uses for embankment land and viaduct space
At Tuesday's PennDOT workshop on the reconstruction of I-95 from Shackamaxon to Palmer streets, participants will discuss the future of the three underpasses and the walls and embankments, all part of…
Yorktown Master Plan calls for community preservation, revitalized green space and spruced-up gateways
A master plan to maintain and improve Yorktown – a small neighborhood near Temple University - has been approved by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission.Yorktown is “One of the most…
In North and West Philadelphia, two urban renewal plans move forward
Update, 4/22/11, 2:49 p.m.: Duplicate videos have been removed and updated and are now correct. Community organizations in North and West Philadelphia came a step closer this week to turning blocks…
Drexel professor imagines enhancing Philadelphia with cell phone tour of history, culture
Drexel University digital media professor Glen Muschio and his students want to create a virtual tour of Philadelphia that would allow anyone walking through a Philadelphia neighborhood with a smart phone…
Bill that would allow condemned I-95 billboards to be rebuilt without zoning oversight is on hold
A bill that would allow the owners of standard billboards - condemned to make way for I-95 - to replace them with flashier, digital models has stalled.And it might not…
Planning wants more time to consider billboard legislation
Philadelphia City Planning Commission members said Tuesday they still need more time to assess the impact of a zoning bill that would allow owners of typical, one-dimensional billboards - condemned for…
Some concern about Central Delaware plan on North and South ends
People who live on the north and south ends of the 6-mile stretch of riverfront the city is working to revitalize are not satisfied that the in-the-works guide to redevelopment does…
CDAG to seek more information on the Central Delaware Master Plan at a special meeting next week
The Central Delaware Advocacy Group will hold a special meeting Thursday to get more information about proposals for the Central Delaware Master Plan – the in-progress guide to redeveloping the waterfront…
How bill on I-95 condemnation corridor came to be
Pending city council legislation that would allow owners of the typical, one-dimensional billboards set to be removed for the I-95 expansion to replace them with flashier, double-sided, electronic signs was not…
Complex saga of Cramp Machine Shop is coming to an end
William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company constructed the industrial cathedral at 2050 Richmond Street nearly 100 years ago as a machine shop where enormous hydraulic turbines dwarfed the…
