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Trash task force fights Tacony Creek litter
In streams across the country, environmental stewards have made significant improvements in reducing waste water and chemical and industrial pollution, but when it comes to personal pollution – food wrappers, bottles,…
Flavorhoods: Tacony Hoagie Trail
Philadelphia is a city of flavorhoods, packed with distinctive tastes, treats, and personality all their own. We’re setting out to explore some of the city's unique food assets – from specialty…
Flavorhoods: Tacony Hoagie Trail
Philadelphia is a city of flavorhoods, packed with distinctive tastes, treats, and personality all their own. We’re setting out to explore some of the city’s unique food assets – from specialty…
Torresdale Avenue businesses envision refreshed facades
Can an entire neighborhood commercial corridor be uplifted if enough business owners freshen up their building facades? That's the hope brewing along Torresdale Avenue in Tacony where a new facade improvement…
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…
Lovely Lardner's Point Park [slideshow]
Lardner’s Point Park, a new public space along the Delaware River just below the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, opened in May bringing a softer green edge to the waterfront. The park, advanced…
Situation Vacant: Building accessible, visitable housing options
In advance of PlanPhilly’s panel discussion about the city’s vacant land strategies on June 12th, Eyes on the Street is collecting and sharing stories from Community Contributors about the…
Facade improvements for Torresdale Ave in Tacony
Tacony Community Develoment Corporation is working to spruce up Torresdale Avenue with a new Façade Improvement Grant Program that will help property owners freshen up their look. The facade improvement grants…
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…
Holy Family's proposal for Liddonfield site has broad community support
The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) has 20 proposals for the former Liddonfield public housing site in Upper Holmesburg. Although the site's future remains uncertain, as previously reported here, many community members…
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…
Lardner's Point Park construction begins, Occupy offered limited permit, Duffy String Band preps, PECO substation reuse
The Delaware River City Corporation officially broke ground on Lardner’s Point Park this week, PlanPhilly reports. The new park will be built next to the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, and riverside from the…
Ground is broken at Lardner's Point
PlanPhilly staff report Groundbreaking took place Monday on a new, 4.5-acre park at Lardner's Point in Tacony that will replace the current “cracked pavement and weeds” with greenery, wetlands, benches, picnic tables,…
School closing announcements today, green-thumb lawyers, urban design jitters, and salty water
School closing and consolidation recommendations will be released today, reports The Public School Notebook, stay tuned to the Notebook and PlanPhilly for full coverage. Northeast Times Star profiles the…
A science-based charter school plans to build near the Tacony waterfront
A science-based K-12 Charter School hopes to build a new campus near the Delaware River in Tacony.Tacony Academy Charter got one step closer to its planned 130,000-square foot school for…
Zoning code versus Northeast politics
By Ian Romano and Megan PaoliniFor Philadelphia Neighborhoods Councilman Brian O’Neill, who sits on the Zoning Code Commission, said he thinks the zoning code is a disaster for regions outside…
New park coming to Tacony riverfront will add green space and wetland, keep fishing pier
Picnickers and hikers may soon join the fisherfolk at Lardner's Point in Tacony.Sometime this summer or early fall, construction will begin on a new, 4.5-acre park that will replace the…
Check out the new DRCC website
Check out the Delaware River City Corp.'s new website. The DRCC was formed in 2004 and works to revitalize a sustainable riverfront corridor in Northeast Philadelphia by reconnecting the people,…
Livable Communities and Philadelphia
On Monday, May 17th, Livable Communities Task Force Members Earl Blumenauer and Allyson Y. Schwartz will join Penn Design School’s Penn Praxis and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for…
Look Up! Henry Disston’s Company Town
May 3, 2010By Alan JaffeFor PlanPhilly“Look Up” is a PlanPhilly feature that encourages appreciation of our architectural and historical environment. Each week, the photo essay will focus on…
