Defending Wissahickon Playground, budget road shows, new Phila.gov, foreclosure sales, Skanska gets Franklin Institute contract, more Renaissance charters

Defending Wissahickon Playground, budget road shows, new Phila.gov, foreclosure sales, Skanska gets Franklin Institute contract, more Renaissance charters
  • Germantown neighbors fight plan to demo Wissahickon Playground for housing
  • City Council’s budget hearing road show
  • The new face of Phila.gov
  • Foreclosed properties accounted for 7% of area sales in late 2011
  • Skanska hired to build wing on Franklin Institute
  • Four public schools to become Renaissance charters
  • Mild winter a budgetary relief
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    Council approves contentious zoning changes, Who is Germantown?, blight of Divine Lorraine and on Knox Street, Delaware waterfront trail progress

    Council approves contentious zoning changes, Who is Germantown?, blight of Divine Lorraine and on Knox Street, Delaware waterfront trail progress
  • Council approves controversial zoning measures for Germantown, Spring Garden Street, SugarHouse
  • Who is Germantown?
  • Divine Lorraine gets pink slip
  • Penn-Knox neighbors losing patience with deadbeat owner
  • Trail design for Northern Liberties to Fishtown section on Delaware
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    Occupy out and homeless shuffle, zoning code comparison, new Center City offices for Penn Medical, neighbors protest demo of Kelly Playground

    Occupy out and homeless shuffle, zoning code comparison, new Center City offices for Penn Medical, neighbors protest demo of Kelly Playground
  • Occupy Philly evicted from Dilworth Plaza
  • Homeless people move from Occupy to Conrail to underpass
  • Comparing the old and future zoning codes
  • New Penn Medicine building construction starts at 8th and Walnut
  • Germantown neighbors protest demolition of Kelly Playground
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    Planning and zoning roundup, SEPTA green grants, Philly’s ethnic eats

    Planning and zoning roundup, SEPTA green grants, Philly’s ethnic eats
  • Planning Commission OKs Chinatown tower, SugarHouse expansion
  • City Council repeals Fishtown music venue rezoning, and considers Germantown Avenue overlay changes to allow Dollar Tree.
  • SETPA gets $6.44 million for hybrid buses and energy storage on the El
  • Why is Philly’s restaurant scene so diverse?
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    Real estate/ Development Roundup: Toll Brothers breaks ground, PA Ballet and Viridity Energy move, Chelten Plaza zoning maneuvers, Barcade opens

    Real estate/ Development Roundup: Toll Brothers breaks ground, PA Ballet and Viridity Energy move, Chelten Plaza zoning maneuvers, Barcade opens
  • Toll developments roll forward
  • PA Ballet moves to N. Broad
  • Viridity Moves to Center City
  • Chelten Plaza shirt circuits
  • Barcade opens in Fishtown
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