Overbrook Farms: Neighborhood Club Advocates to Preserve Neighborhood [video]

Overbrook Farms: Neighborhood Club Advocates to Preserve Neighborhood [video]

Connor Showalter and Jade McKenzie take a closer look at the possible designation of Overbrook Farms as a local historic district and how the Overbrook Farms Club continues to spread awareness about the importance of preserving residential homes and other structures in the neighborhood to build a case for the now delayed designation. [Philadelphia Neighborhoods] 

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Grappling with preservation in Overbrook Farms

Grappling with preservation in Overbrook Farms

The Historical Commission has twice postponed designating the Overbrook Farms Historic District. How do the arguments against designation hold up?

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Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown

Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown
  • Draft waterfront zoning overlay meshes Master Plan with new zoning
  • Is Overbrook Farms Historic District stalling out?
  • Concern for the Keith Haring mural in Point Breeze
  • PA weighs green building legislation
  • The Navy Yard’s transition to a model mini-city 
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    Whither Overbrook Farms Historic District, legalizing bandit signs, Boy Scouts HQ still in limbo, Performance Garage to close

    Whither Overbrook Farms Historic District, legalizing bandit signs, Boy Scouts HQ still in limbo, Performance Garage to close
  • Will Overbrook Farms become a local historic district?
  • Keep bandit signs illegal
  • No deal between city and Boy Scouts over Logan Square HQ
  • Performance Garage to close
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    Ben Franklin Bridge ramp funding cut, city ice rinks reopen, distributing $30m in sheriff sale proceeds, Overbrook Farms Historic District vote postponed

    Ben Franklin Bridge ramp funding cut, city ice rinks reopen, distributing $30m in sheriff sale proceeds, Overbrook Farms Historic District vote postponed
  • Bicycle Coalition wants Ben Franklin Bridge bike/pedestrian ramp funding restored
  • Renovation at city ice rinks once slated to close
  • State trying to distribute millions from old sheriff sale proceeds
  • Overbrook Farms Historic District vote postponed due to resident concerns
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    Inn Yard Park’s new playground, Spring Garden Street Greenway dreams, homeless Occupiers to decamp again, name our trail network

    Inn Yard Park’s new playground, Spring Garden Street Greenway dreams, homeless Occupiers to decamp again, name our trail network
  • Inn Yard Park playground opens in East Falls
  • Spring Garden Street Greenway planning heats up
  • Homeless Occupiers told to move along from I-95
  • DVRPC asks us to name our trail network.
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