Tuesday evening, Drexel University will officially break ground on a $97.6 million mixed-use development on Chestnut Street that will house 869 students and 11 retail tenants.
We're still working on our neighborhood pages. If we've written about this neighborhood, the stories will appear below.
February 20-24: Kahn in Rome, Thaddeus Squire at Visibly Invisible, Scott Gabriel Knowles on risk and disaster, Paula Scher on design, Grid Alive, reimagining urban highways
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
February 13-17: whyilovephilly, high tunnels, Ignite Philly 9, DuBois and Design
Feds fund deeper Delaware, Walnut Street Bridge construction starts, boxing back at Blue Horizon, Philly Hometown Media could start news venture, Soul Train today
Headstones in The Woodlands vandalized
Vandals toppled and broke about 25 headstones in The Woodlands, and repairing the damage will cost about $15,000.
Super Sunday 2/5: Green Philly, Dickens’ 200th birthday, films with Megawords
This Sunday isn’t just about the Super Bowl:
- Drew Becher @ Gershman Y
- Charles Dickens’ 200th Birthday @ U Sciences
- Films with Megawords @ Art Museum
Lower South and West Park district plan presentations
Interested in seeing the Broad Street line extended to the Navy Yard or light rail in the Centennial District? Redevelopment of the Naval Hospital Site or commercial development on Lancaster Avenue? The Planning Commission is presenting its district-level plans for the Lower South and West Park districts on 1/31.
January 30-February 3: Preservation economics, Megaprojects forum, Janette Sadik-Khan, Ed Bacon student design competition, South Philly street design, political gridlock and transportation
Penn’s new High Bay Lab home for super-sensitive telescope
Penn’s new High Bay Lab at 31st and Walnut gives scientists room build huge tools, like a super-sensitive telescope that is sent into the atmosphere to measure data about the stars.
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