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Draft of University/Southwest District Plan presented to PCPC
The draft of the University/Southwest district-level comprehensive plan – which calls for dense development near transit hubs, more transit, cycling and pedestrian amenities, and protecting single-family housing stock within neighborhoods –…
University Southwest District Plan to be unveiled
The draft University Southwest District Plan calls for encouraging development in areas where it lags and better shaping it to community needs where the market is already strong – including areas…
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. …
Final witnesses called in 40th and Pine hardship case; closing arguments to come
Reports of the impending conclusion of the 40th & Pine hardship case have been greatly exaggerated. By this reporter. Attorneys for the University of Pennsylvania, which owns the building, and for…
Progress report on University/Southwest district plan
The Philadelphia Planning Commission's district-level comprehensive plan for University/Southwest will strive to focus mixed-use residential development around some of the city's busiest el stops, strengthen commercial corridors that have vacancies, improve…
November 16-18: Urban Remix | Love Your Park | Tweed Ride | Welcome to the Neighborhood
Urban Remix Design Charrette and Public Reveal Friday, November 16, design charrette 8am-6pm; public reveal 4-6pm. Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. As the area around 46th and Market changes -…
Happy Veterans Day | Old West Philly High apartments? | Drexel looks east | Tarken Ice Rink reborn | Winding Rose Park development | formerly homeless housing at Broad and Fairmount
Good morning and Happy Veterans Day, Streeters. In observance of the holiday, government offices and public schools are closed today, and trash pickup is pushed back one day. There are a…
SEPTA completes Route 34 trolley project on time
Septa’s Route 34 trolley service is on track and on time. After derailing the Route 34 trolleys from the 40th Street Portal to the 61st Street Loop in order to overhaul 7,500 feet…
June 29-July 1: The Wizard of Oz | Germantown Photo Walk | Clark Park art and music | Fireworks
Gary Reed organized a photo walk in Germantown this Saturday | Gary Reed, Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupMoonlight Movies in Mt. Airy: The Wizard of Oz Friday, June 29,…
Historical Commission grants Penn hardship, tables demo case for Episcopal Cathedral
At Friday’s Historical Commission Meeting two important, and unusual hardship cases in West Philadelphia dominated the nearly eight-hour session. Penn was granted its request to demolish a property it owns at…
Hardship at 40th and Pine
This week three very different hardship cases have the attention of Philadelphia’s preservation community. The Church of the Assumption case was heard Thursday by the Court of Common Pleas, and on…
Tire slasher arrested | School District leadership | reinforcing Lincoln Drive | Strip revival | Nugent Home reuse
Magnolia Garden | phillytrax, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupMayfair's tire slasher turns out to be an Aldine Street resident who was, apparently, both slashing and speaking out against the…
Lighting up 46th and Market | Nicetown transit-oriented development | Food Gardens coming in June | bridge construction | Philly Tech Week
University City District is illuminating the area around the 46th Street El stop, Naked Philly reports. A safety study revealed that area was an after-dark crime hot spot thanks in part…
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…
Carpenter Square development, School District sets prices for 12 schools as audit reveals trouble, PHA built without variance, strange slabs on Front Street, Divine Lorraine in pictures
In Southwest Center City, a neighborhood under near-constant construction, the planned Carpenter Square development will transform the neighborhood’s largest piece of vacant land. Last week City Council approved a Redevelopment Authority…
Kroc Center at one year, public asset sales ahead, origins of Wingohocking Sewer, reusing West Philly High
Flying Kite checks in on Nicetown’s one-year-old Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, which has about 10,000 members from all over the city drawn by the state-of-the-art…
How the fate of the old West High may be hinged to far West Philly revival
This report is a product of William Penn Foundation funded reporting partnership between Plan Philly and the Notebook. The old West Philadelphia High School at 48th and Walnut is a…
District tries out new tone at W. Philly facilities meeting
Again striking a new, more conciliatory tone, senior officials from the School District of Philadelphia last night presented their facilities master plan to an audience of about 100 parents and community…
Seger Playground gets funding, ZBA rules on Chelten Plaza, Navy Yard may get hotel, West Philly Hybrid X team honored
Seger Park will get a new tot lot next year thanks to an infusion of city funding, Flying Kite reports. Friends of Seger Playground received $500,000 (via Councilman Frank DiCicco and the…
