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Private Hewson Street | opening energy use data | Fairmount Park’s accounting mistake | Penn puts data over Schuylkill | no treatment center for Kemble Ave

Private Hewson Street | opening energy use data | Fairmount Park’s accounting mistake | Penn puts data over Schuylkill | no treatment center for Kemble Ave
  • Making a public street private
  • Data to drive energy-efficiency retrofits
  • Fairmount Park Commission owes city treasury permit fees
  • Penn to build Grays Ferry data storage center
  • No substance abuse center for transgendered individuals on Kemble Ave
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    Neighbors rally to fight crime in Strawberry Mansion, River Wards | Seal the Divine Lorraine | OCF and Point Breeze | SEPTA cops strike | fund the Free Library

    Neighbors rally to fight crime in Strawberry Mansion, River Wards | Seal the Divine Lorraine | OCF and Point Breeze | SEPTA cops strike | fund the Free Library
  • Strawberry Mansion neighbors unite against violence and blight
  • River Wards Crime Watch forms
  • Seal the Divine Lorraine or she’ll surely burn
  • DN discovers Ori Feibush and his Point Breeze rumbles
  • Transit cops on strike
  • Support the Library that supports the city
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    Can Point Breeze find common ground as zoning power shifts and open dialogue begins?

    Can Point Breeze find common ground as zoning power shifts and open dialogue begins?

    Diversified Community Services has thrown its hat in the ring to convene Point Breeze’s zoning committee, and has embarked on an ambitious community visioning process to facilitate a more productive conversation among neighbors. Can dysfunction and tension be resolved through transparency and open dialogue?

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    Checking In: Dickinson Square Park under construction

    Checking In: Dickinson Square Park under construction

    The renovation of Dickinson Square Park is cranking along: new concrete paths and lighting are being installed currently. [slideshow]

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    Debating North Central NID, calling on Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron, Penn Treaty Park nominated historic, Mt. Airy USA focuses on cultural events, Rendell subpoenaed

    Debating North Central NID, calling on Congregation Shivtei Yeshuron, Penn Treaty Park nominated historic, Mt. Airy USA focuses on cultural events, Rendell subpoenaed
  • North Central NID plan raises questions of community control and benefit
  • A new century for Orthodox synagogue in South Philly
  • Historical Commission hears two park nominations: Coxe Park denied, Penn Treaty Park accepted
  • Mt. Airy USA adds more cultural events to its development strategy
  • Rendell subpoenaed over funds accepted from Iranian group
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    Will new zoning on the waterfront deter or draw development?

    Will new zoning on the waterfront deter or draw development?

    Will new waterfront zoning controls spur or stall development on the Delaware? CDAG’s Matt Ruben thinks we’ll know if land starts changing hands.

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    Manton Street Park split into park and housing

    Manton Street Park split into park and housing

    Last year Manton Park, a small park in Pennsport, looked like it had been reclaimed from weeds and junk by neighbors for nothing: It was sold by the city. But the developers who bought the land have struck a deal that allows new development to be built along a smaller version of Manton Park.

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    Clarke defends North Central NID, Planning Commission adopts Waterfront plan, West Oak Lane Jazz Festival cancelled, budget landmines

    Clarke defends North Central NID, Planning Commission adopts Waterfront plan, West Oak Lane Jazz Festival cancelled, budget landmines
  • Will the North Central NID go the way of Callowhill?
  • Master Plan for the Central Delaware unanimously adopted
  • West Oak Lane Jazz Festival is over
  • Reality-checking Mayor Nutter’s budget
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    PCPC weighs adopting/accepting waterfront plan, final public school closing hearings, Girard block funding, texting while driving ban

    PCPC weighs adopting/accepting waterfront plan, final public school closing hearings, Girard block funding, texting while driving ban
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    Piers 64-70 to become waterfront park, tough love for Germantown United CDC, Rittenhouse Hotel sold, Eagles go greener, Assumption court date postponed

    Piers 64-70 to become waterfront park, tough love for Germantown United CDC, Rittenhouse Hotel sold, Eagles go greener, Assumption court date postponed
  • DRWC snagged privately owned waterfront land behind Wal-Mart for park/trail/wetlands development
  • Germantown United CDC gets tough love from community development experts
  • Hersha Hospitality buys Rittenhouse Hotel for $42 million
  • Eagles green the Linc, partner with NRG for solar array
  • Church of the Assumption arguments postponed
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