-
Menu
- ARTICLES
- NEIGHBORHOODS
-
- ISSUES
- EVENTS
- DIRECTORY
- BECOME A MEMBER
Articles
You are viewing all articles
December 18: A sophisticated network | Round and Mid-century playful | New PPA head
- Monday, December 18, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Parking people on the move: the PPA has picked state Rep. Scott Petri as its new executive director, WHYY News’ Emily Scott reports. Petri, who was formerly the chair of…
Historical Commission to begin considering historic districts after years, sometimes decades, of delay
- Monday, December 18, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
For the past decade, Philadelphia’s Historical Commission has only granted protections to a handful of individual properties each year. As the pace of development escalates, and more remarkable buildings are leveled, preservationists…
Gamblers, foreign money and struggling homeowners: Inside Philly’s sheriff sale boom
- Monday, December 18, 2017
- By Ryan Briggs
- 0 COMMENTS
Above a nondescript dry cleaners in Center City sits a mysterious little office. The rare visitor has to walk through an unrelated tax preparation business to reach its three tiny rooms,…
December 15: Bike share, diversity, inclusion | Counter “stop-and-go” bill | LGBT minority suppliers
- Friday, December 15, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Indego’s parent company has created a diversity and inclusion committee, writes Lian Parsons, contributing to Generocity. Bicycle Transit Systems’ president Alison Cohen explained that in order to ensure ridership diversity, the…
"Stop-and-go" bill passes Council, but deeper tensions underlie debate
- Thursday, December 14, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
City Council approved a controversial “stop-and-go” bill during its final meeting of 2017, which periodically threatened to descend into anarchy as supporters and opponents of Councilwoman Cindy Bass’ legislation flooded Council’s…
Design professionals discuss how to make room for all races in Philly public spaces
- Thursday, December 14, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
- 0 COMMENTS
Sitting in front of a crowd of over one hundred, Tya Winn asked a row of audience members to stand. “There are about 25 of you standing,” the president of Philadelphia’s…
Down this Street before: Can Rebuild stick to its promise of data-driven, apolitical decisions?
- Thursday, December 14, 2017
- By Malcolm Burnley
- 0 COMMENTS
The comparisons are irresistible: Less than three years into office, a Philadelphia mayor pushing through a major legislative initiative that promises to boost equity in long-neglected neighborhoods via a project financed…
December 14: Abate and switch | Blatstein & Super Wawa | Voices on stop-and-go
- Thursday, December 14, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Bart Blatstein’s plans for a “Super Wawa” at Columbus and Dickinson directly counters the pedestrian-friendly goals of the city’s Central Delaware waterfront master plan, Inga Saffron writes. Saffron criticizes Blatstein’s proposed…
As it fills in final missing bits, Philly’s nearly-complete city plan exposes gap between neighborhood hopes and political realities
- Wednesday, December 13, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
As Samantha Petty considered the Planning Commission’s proposals for her community, she experienced a wave of déjà vu. Standing in the hallway of West Philadelphia High School, at the last…
After cyclist’s death, Philadelphia to upgrade bike lanes on South, 27th Streets
- Wednesday, December 13, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
- 0 COMMENTS
On Wednesday, the city announced plans to upgrade the bicycle lanes near the South Street Bridge by adding flexible delineator posts by “mid 2018.” The existing, painted bike lanes on 27th…
December 13: Race & Public Space | Bass and Oh, partitions | PPA’s MeterUp
- Wednesday, December 13, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Tonight: Join us at City Lobby: Race & Public Space, the first in a four-part series hosted by PlanPhilly, Urban Consulate, PACDC, the National Organization of Minority Architects (PhilaNOMA), and Community…
Ridge Avenue demolition moratorium spurs demolition requests
- Tuesday, December 12, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
A proposed demolition mortarium on Ridge Avenue, in Northwest Philadelphia, has spurred a wave of demolition applications. The bill, introduced by Councilman Curtis Jones, would apply to a five-mile stretch of…
December 12: Using the HQ2 model | Azavea’s Summer of Maps | Ghosts of Midtown II
- Tuesday, December 12, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Using the HQ2 model as a business attraction regular: at Monday’s Council hearing, Councilman Derek Green discussed the city’s collaborative potential that was revealed in the Amazon bid process and Councilman…
Forcing small business owners to remove protective barriers endangers public safety, does not make our communities better
- Monday, December 11, 2017
- By Chi-Ser Tran
- 0 COMMENTS
Since 2000, my parents have operated a small family business in North Philadelphia, where we live and work. My parents, refugees who survived genocide in Cambodia to come to this country,…
December 11: Small business workforce development | Strawberry Mansion, tangled title | Mayors for EV tax credit
- Monday, December 11, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Longtime residents of Strawberry Mansion are aware of encroaching private developers and the local CDC is trying to help current homeowners enjoy the benefits of economic development in their neighborhood. Like…
Q&A: Dutch artist Jeanne van Heesjwik, on her time in Philly
- Friday, December 8, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
- 0 COMMENTS
After four years of preparation, dialogue, collaboration, and performance, the Philadelphia Assembled exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will come to a close on Sunday, December 10th. The project is…
How redlining segregated Philadelphia
- Friday, December 8, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
About a third of the homes on West Oakdale Street between 15th and 16th in North Philadelphia are empty. Six vacant lots interrupt the narrow rowhouse block. On a recent November…
December 8: Retail disruption | Disconnected, unwelcomed | What housing shortage?
- Friday, December 8, 2017
- By Diana Lu
- 0 COMMENTS
Econsult Solutions looks at the current truths of the retail market in this week’s Present Value. Econsult senior advisor Catherine Timko chooses the word disruption: how retailers are turning…
How diversity saved a historic church in West Philly
- Friday, December 8, 2017
- By Hayden Mitman
- 0 COMMENTS
Philadelphia’s neighborhoods are studded with hundreds of historic churches. But as attendance steadily declines, many of these religious buildings have fallen into disrepair. Some have been forced to become something else…
Henon blocks possible gambling expansion
- Thursday, December 7, 2017
- By Jake Blumgart
- 0 COMMENTS
City Councilman Bobby Henon sees Philadelphia’s dystopian future. Video poker in every bar, mini-casinos in every neighborhood. A new law signed by Governor Tom Wolf in October massively expands legal gambling…
