Sealing vacants | Sink City revisited | Nutter signs open data order | 48 SEPTA workers win Powerball | Hidden City festival

Sealing vacants | Sink City revisited | Nutter signs open data order | 48 SEPTA workers win Powerball | Hidden City festival
  • Will owners of large vacant properties have to do more to seal them?
  • Sink City: the continued plight of neighborhoods built on bad fill
  • Open data becomes public priority
  • 48 SEPTA workers split $172.7m Powerball
  • 2013 Hidden City Festival calls for proposals
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    Mayor to sign open data order [updated]

    Mayor to sign open data order [updated]
    • April 26, 2012 8:52 am
    • Bravo

    Thursday afternoon Mayor Nutter will sign an Open Data Policy Executive Order making open data a clear public priority for the city.

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    2.0 University Place breaks ground | mending Roxborough Victorians | Philly’s urban revival and reform roadblocks | Nutter on violence, race, and healing cities

    2.0 University Place breaks ground | mending Roxborough Victorians | Philly’s urban revival and reform roadblocks | Nutter on violence, race, and healing cities
  • GSA breaks ground on W. Philly office building
  • $30k  grant to help restore Victorians buildings in Roxborough
  • Philly’s new urban revival and the issues that hold us back
  • Nutter on Race, Culture and Human Relations
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    Debut of Japanese Garden’s Sakura Pavilion Kicks off Cherry Blossom Season

    Debut of Japanese Garden’s Sakura Pavilion Kicks off Cherry Blossom Season

    Today Eyes on the Street offers two looks at the Centennial District. First up: Christine Fisher went to the Japanese House and Garden’s new Sakura Pavilion, comprised of two recently restored original Exposition buildings that reopened this weekend. [slideshow]

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    Connect Philly: Addressing Digital Access Issues on April 5

    Connect Philly: Addressing Digital Access Issues on April 5

    On Thursday April 5, learn more about Connect Philly – a new set of Internet and computer locator tools – and recent efforts to narrow Philadelphia’s digital divide.

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    Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building to be reused as Police Command Center

    Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building to be reused as Police Command Center

    In his budget address Mayor Nutter announced the city’s intent to reuse the former Provident Mutual Life Insurance building at 4601 Market as the new command center for the Philadelphia Police Department. Will this incredible building finally get a new lease on life? Eyes on the Street walked the property inside and out.

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    Budget day: property taxes and LOVE Park renovation | gambling on PGW sale | Barnes Totem approved | Owls to the Big East

    Budget day: property taxes and LOVE Park renovation | gambling on PGW sale | Barnes Totem approved | Owls to the Big East
  • Budget Day: Property taxes based on actual value to raise $90m in revenue. Is the switch to AVI a land mine?
  • LOVE Park renovations coming soon
  • PGW privatization a ‘perilous gamble’
  • Art Commission okays Barnes Totem, planters atop Family Court
  • Temple Owls will join Big East
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    Clarke defends North Central NID, Planning Commission adopts Waterfront plan, West Oak Lane Jazz Festival cancelled, budget landmines

    Clarke defends North Central NID, Planning Commission adopts Waterfront plan, West Oak Lane Jazz Festival cancelled, budget landmines
  • Will the North Central NID go the way of Callowhill?
  • Master Plan for the Central Delaware unanimously adopted
  • West Oak Lane Jazz Festival is over
  • Reality-checking Mayor Nutter’s budget
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    Will the the Planning Commission only adopt part of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware?

    Will the the Planning Commission only adopt part of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware?

    Sources tell PlanPhilly that the Planning Commission may consider adopting only the central part of Master Plan for the Central Delaware, between Mifflin Street and Montgomery Avenue. Something fishy this way comes? [UPDATED]

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    “Fishtown” vs Fishtown, no new taxes, Platt Bridge narrows, $13 million to schools from PPA, Church of the Assumption hearing

    “Fishtown” vs Fishtown, no new taxes, Platt Bridge narrows, $13 million to schools from PPA, Church of the Assumption hearing
  • Why Charles Murray’s “Fishtown” isn’t really our Fishtown
  • Nutter: No new taxes
  • Platt Bridge becomes two lanes for two years
  • School district will receive $13 million from PPA
  • Church of the Assumption oral arguments 3/1
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