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May Day rallies | Route 34 track improvements | casino license auction | connector street plans | SRC budget hearing tonight

May Day rallies | Route 34 track improvements | casino license auction | connector street plans | SRC budget hearing tonight
  • May Day rallies planned in West and SW Philly; bank occupations
  • New tracks for the route 34 trolley
  • Philly might lose that second casino license
  • Progress on three waterfront-neighborhood connector streets
  • School Reform Commission budget hearing tonight
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    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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    Exploring the Lower Schuylkill’s gritty and green potential

    Exploring the Lower Schuylkill’s gritty and green potential

    Come along as Eyes on the Street explores the industrial landscape of the Lower Schuylkill to see what on earth is on those 4000 acres and why we should care about the Master Planning effort underway to chart a new course for the area. Public meetings about the plan are this Wednesday and Thursday evening.

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    April 16-20: Tom Finkelpearl | Homeowner Workshops | Archaeology in Philly | Urban Heat Islands | Lower Schuylkill Master Plan open houses

    April 16-20: Tom Finkelpearl | Homeowner Workshops | Archaeology in Philly | Urban Heat Islands | Lower Schuylkill Master Plan open houses
  • Tuesday: Tom Finkelpearl @ Paley Library
  • Tuesday: Energy Efficiency in Older Homes @ WES Health Center
  • Tuesday: Building Philadelphia: The Hidden City @ Center for Architecture
  • Tuesday: Urban Heat Islands @ Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Wednesday: Historic Porches and Wood Repairs @ Roxborough Development Corporation
  • Wednesday: Lower Schuylkill Master Plan Open House @ Richard Allen Charter School
  • Thursday: Lower Schuylkill Master Plan Open House @ UPenn South Bank
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    Saving Cruiser Olympia and SS United States | Philly papers sell, new owners pledge noninterference | safe cycling and driving law | Preservation Achievement Awards | Sunoco buyers

    Saving Cruiser Olympia and SS United States | Philly papers sell, new owners pledge noninterference | safe cycling and driving law | Preservation Achievement Awards | Sunoco buyers
  • Keeping Cruiser Olympia and SS United States afloat
  • SS United States Conservancy seeks original artifacts
  • PMN sold, new owners pledge non-interference
  • New law codifies safe driving/cycling rules
  • Sweet storefronts, infill, and Independence win awards
  • Sunoco refinery has four bidders
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    Suitors for the Divine Lorraine | PA’s high marks for green jobs | art on wheels | school closings and architectural history | bike sharing in Philly

    Suitors for the Divine Lorraine | PA’s high marks for green jobs | art on wheels | school closings and architectural history | bike sharing in Philly
  • Divine Lorraine’s three suitors
  • PA is in top five states for green jobs
  • Fleisher on wheels
  • Architectural legacy of nine schools slated for closure
  • How come Philly doesn’t have a bike share program?
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    Telling Philadelphia’s story, North Central NID argued and amended, Nicetown Court, no Healing Way in Holmesburg, Olney’s Schwarzwald Inn, budget hearings begin

    Telling Philadelphia’s story, North Central NID argued and amended, Nicetown Court, no Healing Way in Holmesburg, Olney’s Schwarzwald Inn, budget hearings begin
  • Calling all Philadelphia stories
  • 17 amendments and hours of testimony on North Central NID
  • Nicetown Court another sign of reinvestment
  • No-go for Holmesburg methadone clinic
  • Olney’s old Schwarzwald Inn is on the market
  • Budget hearing #1: tonight at St John’s AME [pdf]
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    Volunteer: Schuylkill River cleanups at Bartram’s Garden

    Volunteer: Schuylkill River cleanups at Bartram’s Garden

    Looking for an opportunity to roll up your selves help take care of the city? Show up for Tuesdays at the River: volunteer cleanups along the banks of the Schuylkill River at Bartram’s Garden on the first Tuesdays of every month, March to October.

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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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    Lower Schuylkill from hidden to hotbed?

    Lower Schuylkill from hidden to hotbed?

    How should Philadelphia capitalize on 4,000 acres of well-sited vacant and underused industrial land on the Lower Schuylkill?

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