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Cry me a River: Central Delaware advocates debate changes to waterfront zoning, height limits
Thursday night, the Central Delaware Advocacy Group (CDAG) gathered to hear Mark Squilla explain his proposal to allow the construction of significantly taller buildings along the waterfront. In the Independence Seaport…
Developers seek community support for Delaware power station overhaul
The developers who are hoping to redevelop the massive power station north of Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown have started making the rounds to drum up support from various community groups.…
On the Waterfront: Pier 68 preview
Stand on the service road east of South Philly’s Walmart, and you stand at the intersection of the Delaware waterfront’s past and future. Time was if you tried to find the…
Waterfront corporation to obtain more South Philly land for river trail
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation continues to blaze a permanent trail along the South Philadelphia waterfront with the impending purchase of a strip of land behind the Sheet Metal Workers Union…
Glimpses of Delaware Riverfront revival below Washington Avenue
The Spruce Street Harbor Park may have stolen the waterfront thunder this year but big, more permanent, things are also happening along the Central Delaware waterfront. Perhaps nowhere is more exciting…
Waterfront Working: 3 signs of progress on the Central Delaware
In June 2013 City Council passed a zoning overlay that gives the Master Plan for the Central Delaware its teeth. Now, a year later, there are positive signs that Philly is…
Planning Commission rejects AAA's waterfront plan
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC) has rejected AAA's plan to open a travel/insurance/car repair shop at 1601 S. Columbus Boulevard in Pennsport, with the majority agreeing the proposal is too…
Waterfront agency, advocacy group review projects
Both the Central Delaware Advocacy Group and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation spent much of their first meetings of 2014 reviewing the status of on-going waterfront projects. DRWC is the quasi-city…
More changes to Renaissance Plaza proposal
There's been another revision to plans for Renaissance Plaza - the residential and retail complex Waterfront Renaissance Associaties - an affiliate of Carl Marks Real Estate - plans to build at…
Future of Penn's Landing public meeting Tuesday
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and its hired design firm will share their preliminary concepts for re-doing Penn's Landing - including the capping of a portion of I-95 and Delaware Avenue…
William Penn seeds $5 million more for waterfront access
The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation has received a second $5 million gift from the William Penn Foundation, designated to pay for projects that increase public access to the Central Delaware Waterfront…
New fishing pier coming to South Philadelphia
Pier 68 will become a public fishing pier under a plan being developed by The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. “This is the next new park we plan to do on the…
DRWC to announce new funding and parks, trail, connector projects on the Delaware River waterfront
WHEN: Thursday, October 3, 2013, 1pm WHERE: Race Street Pier, at the intersection of Columbus Boulevard and Race Street WHAT: An announcement of significant new funding for the next phase of…
Is it time for the sun to set on waterfront development gamesmanship?
Members of a group that advocates for the Central Delaware riverfront say developers have too often received zoning variances for projects that never materialize, starting a spiral that depresses waterfront development.…
Delaware Waterfront residents to city: Keep it clean
After seven years of looking at trash, old tires and the very same broken chair along Delaware/Columbus Avenue, Waterfront Square resident Joan Becker had enough. Becker, an artist who frequently walks…
Central Delaware Overlay on way to full Council
A zoning bill designed to marry future development along the Central Delaware to the city's long-range development plan for that riverfront is on its way to city council. The Central Delaware…
Work on Columbia Avenue sculptures gets go-ahead, other waterfront projects progress
Light-bearing bronze sculptures of turtles, and a lit-up fiberglass turkey and wolf, are on their way to Columbia Avenue, as part of an effort to better connect the waterfront to Fishtown.…
CDAG to Wynn: Put more Philly in your Philadelphia casino proposal
If you get to build a casino in Philadelphia, make it look like it belongs in Philadelphia, members of the Central Delaware Advocacy Group told members of Steve Wynn's team this…
Construction of Penn Street Trail starts next month
Construction will begin next month on the Penn Street portion of the Central Delaware River trail, which will stretch from the end of Spring Garden Street, along Columbus Boulevard to Penn…
Central Delaware overlay nears introduction
Zoning legislation that would create rules for development along the Central Delaware waterfront could be introduced later this month. “That's the goal,” Central Delaware Advocacy Group Vice Chairman Joe Schiavo said…
