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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…
Spring Garden Connector RFP | Sen. Casey visits Kenzo Renewal | Annunciation BVM School conversion | Woodland Ave. water main break | Point Breeze house collapse
Good morning, Streeters! Hope you enjoyed the weekend and are feeling ready for some real fall weather. Today’s high? A crisp 55°. Today is Columbus Day, which means that government offices,…
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…
Bike-to-transit | Market East discount district | 'Needle Park' playground rises | PECO rate hike | Chestnut Hill meetinghouse, skyspace update
Directional | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupWhich transit stops need a bike rack? If your train station had a bike rack would you ditch the car and…
L&I's web overhaul | reclaiming West Kensington blocks | Preston's Paradise grows | Schuylkill embankment landscaping | SugarHouse expansion delay
Over the weekend L&I launched its newly redesigned website complete with property histories and the property data mapping capabilities – from vacancies to violations, permits to appeals – reports PlanPhilly’s Jared…
AVI's Harrisburg hurdles | Barnes and civic identity | budget deadlines | lost South Philly | finding parks funding | protecting urban gardens
Harrisburg will need to pass a few bills to enable the city's property reassessment plans (AVI), but State Sen. Larry Farnese says not so fast. It’s Our Money reports that Farnese…
Eyes on the Street: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby celebrates human-powered transit
By Christine FisherFor PlanPhilly 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…
Kimmel Center reno | Philly's bandit sign crusader | spared Sheppard and Stanton could move | Foxwoods dead | PMN sale announcement | property reassessment scares Council | SEPTA rethinks transfers
Kimmel Center's dome | Flickr user rohansebastianbachThe Kimmel Center will remake two of its public spaces with hopes to become more active, welcoming, and profitable, reports the Inquirer.…
Stanton and Sheppard spared from closure | public property ad balance | Philadelphia Media Network sale imminent | minority contracting failings | Franklin Square's new addition
The School Reform Commission voted to close eight schools, but spared Stanton and Sheppard, reports the Public School Notebook. Stanton and Sheppard both have improving educational performance and strong partnerships, but…
Costs of Corbett's General Assistance cuts | Public School closure vote tonight | Philly decaf hub | AM traffic and trash | fake flowers and barbed wire
If Governor Corbett eliminates General Assistance (GA) payments thousands of recovering addicts (and other vulnerable populations) could be forced out onto the city’s streets. In today’s City Paper Daniel Denvir takes…
Lower South and West Park plans adopted | 'Quality of Life' plan for Eastern North Philly accepted | Reassessment 70% done | Delilah's closed | city seeks help with PGW sale | parsing NIDs
Pink hints of spring | 'Off the Beaten Path,' Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupThe Planning Commission adopted the Lower South and West Park district plans with a…
Kensington community activist hopes to become a one-man CDC
It sounds so simple: Raise money to buy vacant homes, enlist a small crew of volunteers to fix them up and sell them at reasonable prices to responsible long-term renters.Then,…
Somerset Neighbors organize, 245 new buses, Gardner and Barnes modernize, dreaming a new Divine Lorraine, Philly ranks as 30th most competitive global city, NextFab2 coming soon
Somerset Neighbors for Better Living is organizing to reclaim their tough corner of Kensington from drugs, vacancy, crime, and prostitution. The Star & Home reports that the organization is being…
Manayunk Towpath reopened, McPherson Square's tree problem, SEPTA's expensive safety system, PIDC gets $50m in fed tax credits, Mac fonts Philly history
The Manayunk Towpath reopened Thursday after four months of trail work, NewsWorks reports. The trail surface was replaced with crushed stone, drainage and fences were improved, and four wooden bridges were…
Challenges for 8200 Germantown Ave, PMN sale/interference saga continues, new bike signage, urban agriculture in W. Kensington
Chestnut Hill neighbors will fight the legislative rezoning for 8200 Germantown Avenue in Common Pleas Court, a five-story mixed-use project proposed for the former Magarity Ford site. Amy Z. Quinn…
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…
Council kicks off 2012, getting to know Darrell Clarke, PA redistricting rejected, Marshalls on Market East, investing in McPherson Square Park
City Council will hold its first 2012 meeting today, but what’s on the agenda is anyone’s guess. As PlanPhilly’s Jared Bray reported yesterday, no agenda is online and calls to Council…
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…
Nutter to veto Callowhill spot-zoning, union contract for Silverliner assembly, investment in Hunting Park, Sheppard Elementary anchors
Mayor Nutter calls spot zoning, and promises to veto the City Council’s bill to allow advertisements to wrap a building at 7th and Willow. The Daily News reports that the bill…
