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Shissler Rec Center opens new sprayground
Shissler Rec Center opened its new "sprayground" Thursday and the preschool students who graduated just before the fountains turned on, along with their friends and family, took to it immediately. Within…
Planning underway for a new river wards history museum
The Native American, colonial and industrial artifacts discovered during I-95 construction through the river wards and a collection of documents and objects commemorating the Treaty of Friendship signed between William Penn…
Crowd-funding a historic facade restoration
For the last few years, Tim Patton has been giving away his home-brewed Saint Benjamin beer at street festivals and during Philly Beer Week. Slowly, he's built a fan base of…
Work on Columbia Avenue sculptures gets go-ahead, other waterfront projects progress
Light-bearing bronze sculptures of turtles, and a lit-up fiberglass turkey and wolf, are on their way to Columbia Avenue, as part of an effort to better connect the waterfront to Fishtown.…
Civic Design Review Committee holds inaugural meeting to consider senior housing
The brand-new Civic Design Review Committee of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission held its first meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss the merits of a proposed 40-unit affordable housing development for senior…
October 5-7: Furnessadelphia | River City Festival | Sustainability walking tour
Furnessadelphia Friday, October 5, 6-8pm. Art in the Age, 116 N. 3rd Street. Art in the Age and Streets Dept. presents a street art salute to the banks of Frank Furness.…
RFP goes out for Spring Garden Connector project, plus other riverfront project updates
An RFP went out this week seeking a designer for the Spring Garden Connector project - improvements with the goal of making walking or biking from Northern Liberties to the waterfront…
Making Phoenix Community Park last | Coyle pleads guilty | HIP Award honorees | UC's rusty water
Friends of the Japanese House and Garden will be honored by HSP for their work restoring Fairmount Park's Sakura Pavilion. | Christine Fisher Seven years ago, Phoenix Community Park rose from…
Two Philadelphia Food Co-Ops Receive $25,000 Grants
If you want to see how community food co-ops launch, grow and flourish, Philadelphia is becoming a great case study. This month, two up-and-coming community food co-ops each received $25,000 in…
Kenzo Renewal's first house | Paper Box coworking opens | Big Plans at Drexel | Pier 53 park work | mail slot break-ins
Kensington Renewal has finished work on its first rehab and will hold an open house on Saturday for 921 East Westmoreland, NewsWorks reports. Jamie Moffett, the filmmaker and neighbor behind Kensington…
Three conversations, two waterfronts, one river
As part of its behind the news event series, PlanPhilly hosted a two-hour Delaware River cruise that celebrated a historic treasure currently docked on our Central Delaware riverfront and the former…
Old textile mill collapses at Madison and Jasper
By the teens John Norris' silk mills were operating at 1830 E. Madison Street. And over the course of a century the building's uses evolved: from textiles to a small silversmithing…
Platt Bridge mess | ATV roundup | softer Fishtown | NoLibs not inevitable
The City of Philadelphia | phillytrax, Eyes on the Street Flickr group For the 50,000 cars that traverse the Platt Bridge daily, construction on the bridge has made the trip a…
Squilla introduces old overlay to new zoning code, aiming to keep special Delaware riverfront rules in place
An amendment to prevent a lapse in the special zoning designed to protect the Central Delaware Riverfront from development contrary to the city's waterfront goals was added to a zoning code…
June 8-10: Art for the Cash Poor | PrideDay | Odunde
Crane | Tim McFarlane via Flickr, Creative CommonsArt for the Cash-Poor Saturday, June 9 –Sunday, June 10, noon-6pm daily. Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street. InLiquid’s annual art…
Tax relief amid gentrifiers | Peebles eyes casino license | Southstar Lofts approval | protesting school budget | designating industrial Kensington
Ironwork | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupCouncilmen Jim Kenney and Mark Squilla want to give long-term residents in gentrifying neighborhoods relief from anticipated property tax hikes under…
Finnegan's own private street | Fishtown's meat man | a better Kensington | ATV/dirt bike debate | abandoned Mt. Sinai
Lily in the City | phillytrax, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupFinnegan’s Wake will get to privatize and pedestrianize a short stretch of Bodine Street, reports Kellie Patrick Gates…
City's role in abandonment, blight | 'Front Door' opens | Germantown archaeology | Henon's billboards | threatened turtle spotted
Foundation Details | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr group The Daily News revisits the 2007 case of a seven-alarm fire in an abandoned textile factory on H Street in…
Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Celebrates Human-Powered Transit
This year's Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby attracted more people than ever before to Kensington's streets where crowds watched the parade of handcrafted, human-powered floats loop through the neighborhood and attempt to…
