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New Police headquarters in West Philly means sale for Roundhouse, Health Department buildings
It's looking ever-more likekly that someday the historic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building at 46th and Market streets will become a new headquarters for the Police, Health Department, and city morgue. …
New - and reused - recommendations for West Market Street
A new Philadelphia City Planning Commission report finds that mixed-use development centered around transit stops, replacing large surface parking lots with more active uses and the relocation of some city services…
West Philadelphia: Center for Culinary Enterprises set to open
This article was created in partnership with Temple University's capstone journalism course Philadelphia Neighborhoods. By Ben Griffiths Taria Dean, owner of T’s Tasty Tater Salad, Inc., was present for the…
A new plan to revitalize West Philadelphia's Lower Lancaster Avenue
There's a new plan being designed to spur development along the Lower Lancaster Avenue Commercial Corridor, through parts of the Belmont, Mantua, Mill Creek, Saunders Park, and West Powelton neighborhoods of…
Make Your Mark: Draft of Lower Lancaster Revitalization Plan Released
The yearlong, collaborative “Make Your Mark” neighborhood planning process is nearing completion, and People’s Emergency Center, the organization driving the planning process, has released a draft of the proposed Lower…
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building to be reused as Police Command Center
Today the vacant but majestic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building has one inhabitant - a hawk living in the tower. But soon enough the Philadelphia Police Department could join the hawk's…
Mantua: People’s Emergency Center involves local residents in neighborhood planning
By Christine Fisher and Kara SavidgeFor PlanPhilly With the help of a $100,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, People’s Emergency Center has embarked on “Make Your Mark,” a…
