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Archaeological dig at Germantown Potter's Field site will not start before March
An archaeological dig to see if human remains lie beneath the Queen Lane Apartments site won't begin until at least March, as a months-long historic review of the 18th-century Potter's Field…
PHA's Queen Lane Apartments plan gets city zoning-board approval
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks The Philadelphia Housing Authority's plans to replace the Queen Lane Apartments with new housing in Germantown got the go-ahead from the city zoning board on…
Controversy lurks as zoning board considers Nicetown affordable senior-housing plan
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks A plan that would see 50 units of affordable senior housing at 18th and Courtland streets in Nicetown will be before the city zoning board…
Farmer's Market overhaul gets underway as Chestnut Hill's gourmet food scene prepares to expand
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksConstruction work hasn't even begun yet on Bowman Properties' project at 8200 Germantown Ave., and the grocery store-retail-condo plan is already having an effect on…
ZBA approves plans for supermarket at Chew and Washington
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks Plans for a Bottom Dollar Food store on Washington Lane are moving forward with zoning board approval. As expected, the board voted Wednesday to approve…
Taking a look inside the $400K project to refurbish Kendrick Mill
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksThe ongoing re-do of a 1919 former mill building at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Pastorious Street isn't the usual type of project for…
Property owner in Germantown spite-blight case skips court hearing
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks Mercurial Germantown property owner Anthony Byrne is facing more than $36,000 in fines after failing to appear at the latest hearing in a years-long blight…
SEPTA to repower locomotive engine, reduce fuel consumption and emissions
Residents near Wayne Junction Station will breathe easier thanks to a SEPTA project to replace the outdated diesel engine on a 1950s-era locomotive with a new, fuel-efficient engine and emissions reducing…
Queen Lane Apartments demo in limbo as archaeologists, historic-preservation experts plan Potter's Field visit
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksArchaeological exploration could begin by mid-November to determine if remains of those once buried at a Germantown Potter's Field lie beneath the site of the…
History unraveling as Wayne Junction silk yarn mill comes down
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksPiece by piece, in piles of wood and chunks of old concrete and brick, the former Van Straaten and Havey silk mill building in Wayne…
A major transformation for Mt. Airy Transit Village plan
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksAs planning continues for a possible Bottom Dollar Food supermarket at Chew Avenue and Washington Lane, a question routinely emerges: Is that part of the…
Looking for history in the library's yard
Pushing a machine that looks much like a lawnmower, a preservationist spent Wednesday methodically walking up and down the green space adjacent to Mt. Airy's Lovett Memorial Library, shooting radar into…
Developer composing a new image for former Wayne Junction industrial site
By Amy Z. Quinn For NewsWorks The former Max Levy Autograph Co. building on Roberts Avenue is more just another now-empty shell near the Wayne Junction SEPTA station. It's a throwback…
Community meeting scheduled for proposed Germantown supermarket project
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks A public meeting has been scheduled for Germantown and East Mt. Airy residents to get more information about a Bottom Dollar Food supermarket proposed for…
Planning Commission approves improvement plan for Germantown-Chelten commercial corridors
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks Two stretches of Germantown Avenue, one through North Philadelphia and another through its namesake neighborhood, are targeted for improvement in a pair of initiatives that…
Neighbors get first look at proposed Bottom Dollar Food store
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksThe developer planning to build a Bottom Dollar Food store at Chew Avenue and Washington Lane in Germantown gave a small group of key neighborhood…
Germantown spite-blight defendant: 'These people won't even let me die in peace'
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorks The owner of the vacant, derelict house at the center of a long-running blight dispute in Germantown told NewsWorks he is the victim of a…
Germantown neighbors still waiting for resolution in long-running case of spite blight
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksAsk Julie Baranauskas about the situation with the vacant house next door to her in Penn-Knox, Germantown's showcase residential neighborhood, and she'll give you the…
Wayne Junction National Historic District building's days are numbered
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksThe city is moving to demolish a vacant, unsecured former silk-mill building in the Wayne Junction National Historic District, calling it too far gone for…
Greene Street Consignment building expansion approved
By Amy Z. QuinnFor NewsWorksPlans for a building expansion at Greene Street Consignment can move ahead, the city zoning board has ruled. The ZBA voted to grant needed variances…
