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Answers for all your SEPTA Key questions
- Wednesday, January 17, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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On Monday, SEPTA will stop selling tokens at subway stations, taking a long-awaited leap forward in the neverending game of hopscotch that is the rollout of its new fare payment system,…
NYC investor promises $50M for Philly’s “middle” rental market
- Wednesday, January 17, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Doing well by doing good in real estate? New York-based investor Tawan Davis has come to Philadelphia with the intention of investing $50 million into affordable rental housing for working families…
Philadelphia-based Kieran Timberlake's "bad deal" embassy opens today in London
- Tuesday, January 16, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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The U.S. embassy in London designed by Philadelphia-based architecture firm KieranTimberlake and disparaged by President Donald Trump as a “bad deal,” opens today, CNN reports. The firm, best known locally for…
As Ben Carson signals fair housing rollback, advocates call on Mayor Kenney to put forward a 'bigger and bolder vision'
- Monday, January 15, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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West Philadelphia resident Vivian Bailey, 76, spent much of the second half of 2017 couchsurfing. For the prior two years, he’d been a resident of the Penn Wynn building in Wynnfield,…
How West Philadelphia businesses answer MLK's call to action
- Monday, January 15, 2018
- By Jabari Jones
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By Jabari K. Jones “We’ve got to realize that the moment is before us!” Those are the words that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used to energize a thunderous, cheering crowd at…
Why Philly isn't giving up the fight for environmental justice
- Friday, January 12, 2018
- By Catalina Jaramillo
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It was a stormy night in Memphis, Tennessee, and Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t feeling very well. He had a slight fever and a sore throat and felt exhausted after the…
Iconic Kensington milk bottle protected from wrecking ball
- Friday, January 12, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Kensington’s iconic milk bottle-shaped water tower and the aging industrial building it perches upon can no longer be demolished without a fight. In a unanimous Friday vote, the Philadelphia Historical Commission…
Retracing Martin Luther King Jr.'s steps through Philadelphia
- Friday, January 12, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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On Monday, Philadelphia and the nation will commemorate the 89th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth. A chapter of the civil rights hero’s life unfolded here in the Philly region…
A cool $1 million goes to former spool factory
- Thursday, January 11, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Globe Dye Works, the yarn-dyeing factory turned live-work space, has received $1 million in state grant funding to rehab its boiler room into an event space, KYW reports. The 1.7-acre, 11-building…
Philly looking to 'boost' bike share with controversial new technology
- Wednesday, January 10, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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Sharing may go from caring to cutthroat in Philadelphia as the city opens the door to a smattering of venture capital-backed dockless bike share companies that have quickly turned the easy…
Preservationists inch closer to protecting Washington Ave. factory
- Wednesday, January 10, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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The Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Avenue has been nominated for the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, Curbed Philly reports. The property made it onto the national register back in December,…
Wage gap divides city workers along racial lines
- Wednesday, January 10, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Philadelphia’s municipal workforce overrepresents the city’s large white and African-American populations, a new report shows. But the city’s most desirable, high-paying posts are disproportionately filled by white people. Men are massively overrepresented in the…
Post Brothers planning 2 towers to rise in West Philly
- Tuesday, January 9, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Two new towers could be soon rising in West Philadelphia. Post Brothers, the developer behind the lux residential conversion of Callowhill’s Goldtex building, is planning a pair of high-rise additions for…
Cyclists violate traffic law no more than drivers, new data shows
- Monday, January 8, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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A new study from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) seems to further confirm a sinking suspicion many Philadelphians have: Everyone on the road is a law-breaking jerk. The FDOT study…
January 8: Comcast buys Wilco | Kiosk designs | Turnpike toll increase
- Monday, January 8, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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Comcast has purchased Wilco Electronics Systems, the city’s only black-owned cable provider, Technically Philly’s Roberto Torres reports. Of significance, the 40-year old company provides communication services to PHA residents and low-income…
Most Philadelphia neighborhoods still haven't recovered from the recession
- Friday, January 5, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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Despite a recent building boom, Philadelphia’s housing market has not recovered from the Great Recession, especially outside Center City. While new high-rises are going up downtown and a handful of neighborhoods…
January 5: Car slams into SEPTA train | Industrial deco castle | Temple’s Tiny House
- Friday, January 5, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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It’s Chilly Philly out there! SEPTA will operate on Severe Storm Schedule for Regional Rail Friday, which means at 75 percent capacity of a normal weekday. Bus and trolley routes are…
Trump strategy may pose threat to King of Prussia rail
- Thursday, January 4, 2018
- By Jim Saksa
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A major spending policy reversal by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) over a tunnel underneath the Hudson River may signal derailments to SEPTA’s own infrastructure projects, some experts say. Late last…
The politics behind Philly's affordable housing stalemate
- Thursday, January 4, 2018
- By Jake Blumgart
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2017 ended without a wrap on at least one City Hall controversy: inclusionary zoning. As my WHYY collague Dave Heller and I discussed on Tuesday's NewsWorks Tonight broadcast ( listen to…
January 4: Frankford Chocolate Factory | Trickle-down environment | Commercial waste audit system
- Thursday, January 4, 2018
- By Diana Lu
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The Frankford Chocolate Factory on Washington Avenue is now on the National Register of Historic Places, Curbed Philly reports. The federal designation allows the building to qualify for 20 percent tax…
