Walnut closure | School District’s September hangs on AVI | waterfront trail development | hardware history

Walnut closure | School District’s September hangs on AVI | waterfront trail development | hardware history
  • Two blocks of Walnut closed today
  • Without AVI, School District could shut down
  • Councilwomen Brown and Quinones-Sanchez urge passage of AVI
  • Designing and developing Delaware waterfront trail
  • Fern Rock Hardware thrives
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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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    Stabilizing Pier 9 | Dilworth Plaza demo update | San Mateo Carnavalero | Barnes move madness | cheesesteak opera

    Stabilizing Pier 9 | Dilworth Plaza demo update | San Mateo Carnavalero | Barnes move madness | cheesesteak opera
  • Pier 9 study: $3.5m to stabilize, $11m to transform
  • Dilworth demo is on schedule
  • San Mateo Carnavalero in Sacks Playground
  • Barnes move is a precision operation
  • Singing Verdi at Geno’s
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    Will the the Planning Commission only adopt part of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware?

    Will the the Planning Commission only adopt part of the Master Plan for the Central Delaware?

    Sources tell PlanPhilly that the Planning Commission may consider adopting only the central part of Master Plan for the Central Delaware, between Mifflin Street and Montgomery Avenue. Something fishy this way comes? [UPDATED]

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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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    Race Street Connector Phase 2: more technical, less arty

    Race Street Connector Phase 2: more technical, less arty

    The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation presented neighbors conceptual plans for Phase 2 of the Race Street Connector project Tuesday night. Where Phase 1 was arty, Phase 2 is technical.

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    School of Rock loft conversion, CDAG urges adherence to waterfront plan, Race Street Connector Phase 2, private funding for schools, Sunoco and fuel price spikes

    School of Rock loft conversion, CDAG urges adherence to waterfront plan, Race Street Connector Phase 2, private funding for schools, Sunoco and fuel price spikes
  • Former School of Rock to become Brandywine Lofts
  • CDAG urges city to hew to Central Delaware Master Plan, pass waterfront zoning overlay
  • Race Street Connector Phase 2 public meeting
  • Private funds helping public and religious school systems, but at what cost?
  • Philadelphia Sunoco closure will result in price hikes
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    February 27-March 2: Enrique Peñalosa, Pavilions, Race Street Connector Phase 2, Michael Katz, Germantown’s Commercial Corridor, Carpenter Square at DAG

    February 27-March 2: Enrique Peñalosa, Pavilions, Race Street Connector Phase 2, Michael Katz, Germantown’s Commercial Corridor, Carpenter Square at DAG
  • Monday: Enrique Peñalosa @ PennDesign
  • Tuesday: Panoramic Possibilities of the Pavilion @ Architectural Archives
  • Tuesday: Race Street Connector Meeting @ DRWC offices
  • Wednesday: Michael Katz @ Inn at Penn
  • Wednesday: Re-Stimulate! Re-Invigorate! ReDevelop! Germantown’s Commercial Corridor @ Germantown Friends
  • Thursday: Design Advocacy Group @ Center for Architecture
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    Planning Commission will Consider Master Plan for Central Delaware on March 6

    Planning Commission will Consider Master Plan for Central Delaware on March 6

    March 6 will be a big day for the Delaware Waterfront: The City Planning Commission will consider adopting the Master Plan for the Central Delaware.

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    Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown

    Waterfront zoning overlay drafted, debating Overbrook Farms’ historic districting, Keith Haring in Point Breeze, PA considers green building legislation, onward Navy Yard boomtown
  • Draft waterfront zoning overlay meshes Master Plan with new zoning
  • Is Overbrook Farms Historic District stalling out?
  • Concern for the Keith Haring mural in Point Breeze
  • PA weighs green building legislation
  • The Navy Yard’s transition to a model mini-city 
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