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Final design phase begins for riverfront park in Bridesburg
- Monday, November 20, 2017
- By Hayden Mitman
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Tucked away behind a parking lot filled with yellow school buses and a busy metal recycling facility along the Delaware River in Bridesburg, there is a rutted, weed-strewn 10-acre lot. It…
In surprise reversal, Christian Street Baptist no longer protected from wrecking ball
- Monday, November 20, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
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When the Historical Commission met earlier this month, it seemed like the Christian Street Baptist Church was added to the local historic register, sparing it from a developer’s wrecking ball.…
November 20: 'Blat Cave' | LA21 strategies | Transit riders unions
- Monday, November 20, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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Jared Brey covers People’s Emergency Center (PEC)’s strategies to preserve longtime businesses and historic buildings while bolstering development on Lancaster Avenue. PEC’s community, economic, and real estate development director James Wright…
City selects first 21 nonprofit 'project users' to put the 'build' in Rebuild
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Malcolm Burnley
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A lot of the consternation surrounding Mayor Jim Kenney’s mega-project Rebuild has focused on the desired delivery structure for the project. From the start, it’s been the administration’s preference to utilize…
Our monuments are our continuation
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Sophie Sarkar
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Earlier this month in Philadelphia, years of protest — reignited by the August events in Charlottesville — culminated in an announcement by the city that it would be removing the statue…
Kenney's Preservation Task Force readies report
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Ashley Hahn
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During its opening months, Mayor Jim Kenney’s Historic Preservation Task Force established a collective understanding of the current state historic preservation in Philadelphia. So far it’s heard from the public,…
November 17: Enthused and confident | Affordable housing inventory | Open strollers op-eds
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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Econsult Solutions’ Philadelphia Housing Index this month looks at the city’s affordable housing inventory and its spatial distribution. The analysis used metrics such as down payment, property tax, and homeowner insurance…
As Philadelphia reflects on its monuments, some more questions to ask
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Catherine Hofmann
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Mural Arts' Monument Lab wants to know, “What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?” It’s a great question, but I want to suggest a few more to…
Home security? Some opposed to Domb’s bill to securitize liens on tax deadbeats
- Friday, November 17, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
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After almost two years in office, Councilmember-At-Large Allan Domb finally introduced the bill he ran his campaign on. At Thursday’s City Council session, he put forward tax-lien securitization legislation that…
New, easier-to-use SEPTA App offers real-time ETAs
- Thursday, November 16, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA released a new mobile app Wednesday night. Called SEPTA beta, it’s a major overhaul of SEPTA’s oft-derided old app. Users will notice some big changes: A brand new interface, the…
November 16: New SEPTA app | Sanctuary City update | Mandating affordable housing
- Thursday, November 16, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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Good morning, SEPTA app! At 10pm Wednesday night, SEPTA rolled out the app’s first major update, “built with customer comments and feedback received in mind,” Technical.ly Philly’s Roberto Torres reports.…
Monumental matters in Philadelphia
- Thursday, November 16, 2017
- By Faye Anderson
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Mural Arts Philadelphia’s temporary exhibition, Monument Lab: A Public Art and History Project, asks: “What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?” In the wake of…
Pew Report: Philly’s poor have been stuck in the inner city, separated from suburban job growth
- Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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On Wednesday, Pew Charitable Trusts released a new study exploring the city’s infamous status as America’s poorest big city. “We know that Philadelphia is the poorest big city in the United…
November 15: Reform, reasonable ideas | NTSB: Amtrak at fault | Rethinking real estate
- Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) finds Amtrak at fault for the 2016 passenger train crash outside Chester that killed two maintenance workers, WHYY News’ Laura Benshoff reports. NTSB presented the…
Philadelphia explains how it would make deep cut in carbon emissions
- Tuesday, November 14, 2017
- By Jon Hurdle
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The City of Philadelphia on Tuesday unveiled its vision for how to meet its ambitious goal of cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. The 55-page paper by the city’s…
November 14: No KOP Rail | First Modern | Purposeful installation and deinstallation
- Tuesday, November 14, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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The No KOP Rail campaign adds more substantive objections, Sandy Smith writes. The voice of the opposition, Dan Cowhey, argues that the project “delivers no benefit to current King of Prussia…
Eyes on the Page: ‘Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City,’ reviewed
- Monday, November 13, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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Like the website and the festivals that supply the operative part of its title, Philadelphia: Finding the Hidden City is a love letter to the city’s past. To the extent it…
November 13: The Cathedral Block | No gay cruising sign | State of University City
- Monday, November 13, 2017
- By Diana Lu
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Guess what! You could win a private tour of one of Frank Furness’s earliest commissions! Make a donation of any size to PlanPhilly’s membership drive and you’ll be automatically entered in…
Blocking Babylon: Historical Commission prevents demo of church properties in Bella Vista, Lawncrest
- Monday, November 13, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
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UPDATE: On Monday, November 20th, the Historical Commission announced a reversal on its vote to add Christian Street Baptist Church to the loal historic register, following notification that the Commission's…
Before Rebuild is over site selection, oversight board selected for Rebuild
- Friday, November 10, 2017
- By Malcolm Burnley
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One of the sharpest criticisms levied against Mayor Jim Kenney’s Rebuild initiative last spring, when its enabling legislation was wiggling its way through Council, was a perceived lack of public…
