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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    Public School Blues: news roundup

    Public School Blues: news roundup
  • Corbett’s walking all over us - human red carpet planned today
  • Grant Calder: Philly schools’ century of struggle
  • Lisa Haver: the end of Philly’s public education
  • It’s Our Money podcast: 3 big questions for the district
  • Making Public Schools Work: Part 1, Part 2
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    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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    Public school closures could just be getting started

    Public school closures could just be getting started
    • April 6, 2012 2:16 pm
    • News

    The School District’s budget woes, facilities expenses, and empty seats aren’t going away with the eight public schools that are set to close. Instead, these closures are likely the start of a longer cycle of closings and consolidations ahead.

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    Kimmel Center reno | Philly’s bandit sign crusader | spared Sheppard and Stanton could move | Foxwoods dead | PMN sale announcement | property reassessment scares Council | SEPTA rethinks transfers

    Kimmel Center reno | Philly’s bandit sign crusader | spared Sheppard and Stanton could move | Foxwoods dead | PMN sale announcement | property reassessment scares Council | SEPTA rethinks transfers
  • The Kimmel Center’s public space facelift
  • Meet Christopher Sawyer, bandit sign police
  • Sheppard and Stanton spared from closure, but could move
  • Foxwoods is officially dead, 2nd license to be bid
  • Philadelphia Media Network sale could come today
  • Property tax reassessment as poison pill for Council
  • SEPTA rethinks transfers under smart cards
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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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    Furness at Mt. Sinai, reprieve for Catholic high schools, public school closure hearings March 3, PHA to stay under HUD control, $24 million garage for Zoo

    Furness at Mt. Sinai, reprieve for Catholic high schools, public school closure hearings March 3, PHA to stay under HUD control, $24 million garage for Zoo
  • Look Up!: Furness chapel survives at Mt Sinai Cemetery
  • Private funds rescue 4 Catholic high schools from closure
  • Hearings on March 3 for nine public schools set to close
  • PHA to stay in federal control
  • $24 million garage for the Zoo
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    PlanPhilly looks back: SS United States, Sunoco still seeks refinery buyers, no Promise Neighborhoods grant for Universal, Bill Green on BPT reform

    PlanPhilly looks back: SS United States, Sunoco still seeks refinery buyers, no Promise Neighborhoods grant for Universal, Bill Green on BPT reform
  • Tarnished jewel on the Delaware
  • Sunoco still seeks refinery buyers
  • No Promise Neighborhood grant for Kenny Gamble’s Universal
  • Bill Green on Business Privilege Tax reform
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    Nine schools could close, Route 47 streamlining out, faulty utilities, Electric Factory ad-wrap

    Nine schools could close, Route 47 streamlining out, faulty utilities, Electric Factory ad-wrap
  • 9 schools could closing
  • Route 47 stop consolidations over
  • Damaged power line causes explosion in University City
  • Electric Factory wrapped in ads?
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