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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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    City’s role in abandonment, blight | ‘Front Door’ opens | Germantown archaeology | Henon’s billboards | threatened turtle spotted

    City’s role in abandonment, blight | ‘Front Door’ opens | Germantown archaeology | Henon’s billboards | threatened turtle spotted
  • Tracing the city’s role in a 2007 factory fire in Kensington and the blight left behind
  • City launches web-based interface for city-owned vacant property sales
  • Germantown neighbor discovers mysterious underground room beneath yard
  • Billboard companies along I-95 have a friend in Bobby Henon
  • Tiny turtle likes Lardner’s Point Park
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    Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Celebrates Human-Powered Transit

    Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Celebrates Human-Powered Transit

    The sixth annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby attracted more people than ever to Kensington’s streets where crowds watched the parade of handcrafted, human-powered floats loop through the neighborhood and attempt to cross a giant mud-pit finish line on Saturday. [video] [slideshow]

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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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    Norris Square rezoning moves forward | Philly’s white population up | Waterfront zoning overlay issues | Northwood’s new Town Watch

    Norris Square rezoning moves forward | Philly’s white population up | Waterfront zoning overlay issues | Northwood’s new Town Watch
  • Norris Square rezoning moving forward
  • Philly’s white population on the rise
  • Concerns remain about draft waterfront zoning overlay, clock is running down
  • Northwood gets Town Watch
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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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    Music as neighborhood anchor | Mayor Blondell? | Gray’s Ferry garden fight | Delaware waterfront development limbo | reviewing Economic Opportunity

    Music as neighborhood anchor | Mayor Blondell? | Gray’s Ferry garden fight | Delaware waterfront development limbo | reviewing Economic Opportunity
  • Music venues as neighborhood improvement tool
  • Blondell Reynolds Brown for Mayor?
  • Gardens in Gray’s Ferry could be divided due to sheriff’s sale
  • Proposed development near Ben Franklin Bridge ‘legal, but incompatible’
  • New committee reviews city’s Economic Opportunity policies
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    Separate AVI and schools | waterfront zoning overlay update | stop-work over at Goldtex | Philly food truck scene | $1.5 billion for PA from gaming | new (old) publisher for Media Network

    Separate AVI and schools | waterfront zoning overlay update | stop-work over at Goldtex | Philly food truck scene | $1.5 billion for PA from gaming | new (old) publisher for Media Network
  • Decouple AVI and the School District’s recovery plan
  • CDAG and Planning Commission still working over waterfront zoning overlay
  • Work to resume at Goldtex
  • Philly food trucks get noticed
  • PA gambling revenue ranks third to Nevada and New Jersey
  • Greg Osberg out as Philadelphia Media Network Publisher, former publisher Bob Hall back
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    Inside Pennthouses | Church of the Assumption case at Common Pleas | WCRP’s bank demo, development draws ire | O’Brien on Harrisburg

    Inside Pennthouses | Church of the Assumption case at Common Pleas | WCRP’s bank demo, development draws ire | O’Brien on Harrisburg
  • Michael Samschick’s Pennthouses, plans for Penn Treaty Village
  • Church of the Assumption case hangs on city department powers
  • Kensington debates historic bank razing for housing
  • Denny O’Brien ripped at Harrisburg over education funding
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    New L&I Commissioner | Northeast budget hearing | inside Huntingdon Yarn Mill | PRA seeks developers for Francisville parcel

    New L&I Commissioner | Northeast budget hearing | inside Huntingdon Yarn Mill | PRA seeks developers for Francisville parcel
  • Carlton Williams to head L&I after Burns
  • At Northeast budget hearing, 11 council members no-showed
  • Huntingdon Yarn Mill thrives in Port Richmond
  • PRA seeking developers for Francisville parcel
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