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Planning Commission supports YWCA redevelopment, hears about Blue Horizon and sign controls; Umbria Village’s new name; Grubb & Ellis bankrupt; area home sales up

Planning Commission supports YWCA redevelopment, hears about Blue Horizon and sign controls; Umbria Village’s new name; Grubb & Ellis bankrupt; area home sales up
  • Chestnut Street YWCA Annex redevelopment supported by PCPC despite concerns about design
  • Blue Horizon could become Hotel Blue on Broad
  • Draft sign controls presented to Planning Commission
  • Proposed development in Roxborough goes from Umbria Village to The Station at Manayunk. Deceptive?
  • Grubb & Ellis files for bankruptcy
  • Philly-area home sales up, but sales prices down from last year
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    Challenges for 8200 Germantown Ave, PMN sale/interference saga continues, new bike signage, urban agriculture in W. Kensington

    Challenges for 8200 Germantown Ave, PMN sale/interference saga continues, new bike signage, urban agriculture in W. Kensington
  • 8200 Germantown Ave development faces zoning appeal
  • Philadelphia Media Network to cut 37 staffers, Times digs in to the sale and editorial interference, and Bissinger weighs in vs. Rendell group
  • New bike signage citywide
  • More urban agriculture taking root in West Kensington
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    Carpenter Square development, School District sets prices for 12 schools as audit reveals trouble, PHA built without variance, strange slabs on Front Street, Divine Lorraine in pictures

    Carpenter Square development, School District sets prices for 12 schools as audit reveals trouble, PHA built without variance, strange slabs on Front Street, Divine Lorraine in pictures
  • Carpenter Square in Southwest Center City moves forward
  • 12 schools for sale, audit reveals deep trouble for School District
  • PHA built without its zoning settled, now what?
  • Why have slabs of curb sat on Front Street for a year?
  • Inside Divine Lorraine
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    Feds fund deeper Delaware, Walnut Street Bridge construction starts, boxing back at Blue Horizon, Philly Hometown Media could start news venture, Soul Train today

    Feds fund deeper Delaware, Walnut Street Bridge construction starts, boxing back at Blue Horizon, Philly Hometown Media could start news venture, Soul Train today
  • Obama budget includes $31 million for deepening the Delaware
  • Walnut Street Bridge construction begins today
  • Could boxing return to the Blue Horizon?
  • Blatstein and Philly Hometown Media may start own news enterprise
  • Soul Train dance line today at 4pm
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    City Hall station work, Council talks jobs and revenue, Nutter promises more resources to fight crime, North Central NID opponents organize, beautifying Holme Circle

    City Hall station work, Council talks jobs and revenue, Nutter promises more resources to fight crime, North Central NID opponents organize, beautifying Holme Circle
  • SEPTA funds some improvements to City Hall station
  • City Council kicks off 2012 with jobs and revenue bills
  • Nutter goes all out on gun crimes
  • Temple area NID opponents organize
  • Plans to beautify Holme Circle
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    Council kicks off 2012, getting to know Darrell Clarke, PA redistricting rejected, Marshalls on Market East, investing in McPherson Square Park

    Council kicks off 2012, getting to know Darrell Clarke, PA redistricting rejected, Marshalls on Market East, investing in McPherson Square Park
  • City Council’s first 2012 meeting; elusive agenda
  • Getting to know Darrell Clarke better
  • Redistricting map rejected by Pennsylvania Supreme Court
  • Marshalls coming to Market East
  • Investing in McPherson Square Park
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    Sustainable Design Competition to Rethink Rec Centers

    Sustainable Design Competition to Rethink Rec Centers

    The Delaware Valley Green Building Council’s 2012 Sustainable Design Competition asks students and young professionals to rethink four of Philly’s rec centers as green, community fixtures.

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    Zoning remapping plan okayed, 12-story apartment house to replace YWCA Annex, Yorktown student housing ban stands, City loses millions to Wall Street swaps

    Zoning remapping plan okayed, 12-story apartment house to replace YWCA Annex, Yorktown student housing ban stands, City loses millions to Wall Street swaps
  • Planning commission approves zoning map conversion, remapping
  • 12-story tower coming to 20th and Chestnut
  • Yorktown landlords must live with student renters
  • How Wall Street gambling with public money cost the city millions
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    ‘The Streets of Philadelphia’ mural gets reprieve

    ‘The Streets of Philadelphia’ mural gets reprieve

    A WPA-era mural in the Spring Garden Post Office was listed on last year’s Endangered Properties List by the Preservation Alliance. But the post office is no longer slated to close, giving the mural a new lease on life too.

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    Meet Mark Squilla, what the Winter Classic is worth, Philly 2012 trends, hope for Gretz Brewery, Philly as GIS leader

    Meet Mark Squilla, what the Winter Classic is worth, Philly 2012 trends, hope for Gretz Brewery, Philly as GIS leader
  • Mark Squillia talks Market East, waterfront, and his predecessor
  • What’s the Winter Classic worth?
  • Trends shaping Philadelphia 2012
  • Whither Gretz Brewery?
  • Philadelphia’s GIS past/present/future
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