Vacant Property

Regulating signs in the city, land bank gaining traction, sewage treatment plant as bird habitat, fuel costs and refinery closures

Regulating signs in the city, land bank gaining traction, sewage treatment plant as bird habitat, fuel costs and refinery closures
  • Draft sign controls to be presented to Planning Commission today
  • In favor of a municipal land bank
  • Sewage treatment plant winter habitat for swallows
  • Idled refineries contributing to rising gas-prices?
  • read more

    Wayne Junction gets historic designation, PA transportation funding woes, new Dilworth but same SEPTA, vacancy in Center City office buildings

    Wayne Junction gets historic designation, PA transportation funding woes, new Dilworth but same SEPTA, vacancy in Center City office buildings
  • State approves listing Wayne Junction Historic District on National Register
  • Transportation funding left out of budget
  • New Dilworth, same SEPTA platforms
  • Center City office buildings 14.1% vacant
  • read more

    Kensington Renewal crowdfunding rehabs

    Kensington Renewal crowdfunding rehabs

    Is it possible to crowdsource neighborhood change? Kensington Renewal aims to try.

    read more

    Land bank and tax-delinquent property bills, award for L&I’s blight court, ads on school buses, Philadelphia Media Network seeks buyers, LeBron @ Sabrina’s

    Land bank and tax-delinquent property bills, award for L&I’s blight court, ads on school buses, Philadelphia Media Network seeks buyers, LeBron @ Sabrina’s
  • Bills to create a Land Bank and collect on back property taxes introduced in Council
  • L&I gets award for anti-blight strategy
  • Ads on school buses?
  • Philadelphia Media Network hired investment banking firm find buyers
  • LeBron hearts Sabrina’s
  • read more

    Kroc Center at one year, public asset sales ahead, origins of Wingohocking Sewer, reusing West Philly High

    Kroc Center at one year, public asset sales ahead, origins of Wingohocking Sewer, reusing West Philly High
    read more

    Wishing on Philly 2012

    Wishing on Philly 2012

    Eight wishes for Philadelphia’s new year from Eyes on the Street. What’s on your wish list for 2012?

    read more

    Whither the Reading Viaduct wrapped in the Callowhill NID?

    Whither the Reading Viaduct wrapped in the Callowhill NID?

    City Council unanimously voted in favor of the Callowhill NID on Thursday even though an apparent majority of property owners wrote letters of opposition. Will the NID come to pass? And if so, what of the Reading Viaduct park project that the NID could help fund?

    read more

    December 12-16: PHS holiday pop-up shop, Moviehouse, urban gardening talk, Unsilent Night

    December 12-16: PHS holiday pop-up shop, Moviehouse, urban gardening talk, Unsilent Night
  • Monday-Friday: PHS Holiday Pop-Up Shop @ Comcast Center
  • Tuesday: “Moviehouse” @ Historical Society of Frankford
  • Wednesday: Community Conversation on Gardening and Land Issues @ Finanta Buidling
  • Wednesday: Unsilent Night and Old Philadelphia Holiday Party
  • read more

    Big zoning reform hearing, vacant school hazards, Manton Street park reclaimed and sold, Dilworth’s pedestrian problem

    Big zoning reform hearing, vacant school hazards, Manton Street park reclaimed and sold, Dilworth’s pedestrian problem
  • Zoning Reform Council hearing today
  • Closed schools are unsafe eyesores, says City Controller
  • Manton Street Park restored by neighbors, sold by city
  • Dilworth Plaza fencing leaves no room for pedestrians
  • read more

    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
  • read more