Vacant Property

Sister Cities rave | Council’s AVI splits | SEPTA’s tough budget | L&I dresses up | front door, trap door

Sister Cities rave | Council’s AVI splits | SEPTA’s tough budget | L&I dresses up | front door, trap door
  • ‘Small miracle’ at Sister Cities
  • AVI leaves Council split, coming down to the wire
  • No wiggle-room in SEPTA’s budget as crisis looms
  • Dress code to enforce code
  • Property front door: good; Councilmanic trap door: bad
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    Vacant property disposition issues | Greensgrow lessons | overtaking Bodine Street | thousands protest school outsourcing plan | Night Market NoLibs

    Vacant property disposition issues | Greensgrow lessons | overtaking Bodine Street | thousands protest school outsourcing plan | Night Market NoLibs
  • Vacant property processes are unchanged behind the “front door”
  • Learning from Greensgrow
  • Finnegan’s Wake still wants to take over Bodine Street
  • Thousands of workers protest school district plan
  • Night Market returns tonight
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    Budget woes for Philly parks, PA schools | urban bird strikes | Francisville wants condos | Live Arts lineup

    Budget woes for Philly parks, PA schools | urban bird strikes | Francisville wants condos | Live Arts lineup
  • Fund Philly parks
  • Hard times for schools statewide
  • Making glassy buildings less deadly for migrating birds
  • Condos for PRA property in Francisville?
  • Live Arts lineup preview

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    AVI’s Harrisburg hurdles | Barnes and civic identity | budget deadlines | lost South Philly | finding parks funding | protecting urban gardens

    AVI’s Harrisburg hurdles | Barnes and civic identity | budget deadlines | lost South Philly | finding parks funding | protecting urban gardens
  • Sen. Farnese wants AVI to be revenue-neutral, not tied to schools
  • The Barnes: A grand civic moment
  • Philly’s fiscal year begins 7/1: Can the city meet its budget deadline?
  • 20 South Philly places that are gone, but not forgotten
  • Old urban gardens unprotected in the city’s vacant property approach
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    LGBT senior housing supported at Council | Buck owners enter tax payment agreement | homeless census | life as a ‘body man’ | surface parking woe | Sixers soul

    LGBT senior housing supported at Council | Buck owners enter tax payment agreement | homeless census | life as a ‘body man’ | surface parking woe | Sixers soul
  • William Way Senior Housing gets support at Council
  • Buck Factory owners enter into payment agreement for back taxes
  • 583 counted in homeless census
  • Life as body man
  • Surface parking sucks urban life
  • Sixers Soul
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    Vacant industrial puzzles | Hunting Park honored | beautiful Boyd | clearing wrongful L&I violations | Marina View redo

    Vacant industrial puzzles | Hunting Park honored | beautiful Boyd | clearing wrongful L&I violations | Marina View redo
  • Abandoned industrial properties as keys and roadblocks to revitalization
  • Hunting Park honored by City Parks Alliance
  • Inside the Boyd: Still Deco and dreamy
  • Untangling mistaken L&I violations
  • Re-do Marina View Towers
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    Second casino license | PGW sale cost | School District’s opportunistic approach to crisis | gay-friendly Philly | development districts

    Second casino license | PGW sale cost | School District’s opportunistic approach to crisis | gay-friendly Philly | development districts
  • Second casino license is for suckers
  • Fighting over PGW sale
  • School financial crisis creates academic reform opportunity
  • Philadelphia as the gay-friendliest city in US
  • Clarke drumming up development district support
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    April 25: Behind-the-news look at PlanPhilly’s tax delinquency app

    April 25: Behind-the-news look at PlanPhilly’s tax delinquency app

    Join PlanPhilly on Wednesday for a discussion and demo of the tax-delinquency app that fueled Patrick Kerkstra’s PlanPhilly/Inquirer series about deadbeat property owners.

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    Combatting Philly’s ‘culture of neglect’ | Violations at Jefferson Lofts | Hotel Indigo coming to Chestnut | Episcopal Cathedral claims hardship | Farewell Dick Clark

    Combatting Philly’s ‘culture of neglect’ | Violations at Jefferson Lofts | Hotel Indigo coming to Chestnut | Episcopal Cathedral claims hardship | Farewell Dick Clark
  • City should put “culture of neglect to rest”
  • L&I cites Lichtensteins over Jefferson Lofts
  • Hotel Indigo coming to Chestnut Street
  • Preservation hardship case at 38th and Chestnut
  • Dancing to honor Dick Clark; Thank you Dick Clark
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    Patrick Kerkstra on Radio Times

    Patrick Kerkstra on Radio Times

    PlanPhilly’s Patrick Kerkstra will be on Radio Times alongside Richard Negrin and Christopher Sawyer to talk vacant property: the politics, plans, problems, and potential. Tune in at 10am Tuesday.

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