Telling Philadelphia’s story, North Central NID argued and amended, Nicetown Court, no Healing Way in Holmesburg, Olney’s Schwarzwald Inn, budget hearings begin
Point Breeze starts new zoning committee to mend broken process
South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. has established a new zoning committee in the hopes of facilitating a more transparent and functional neighborhood zoning process. Hear, here. Meanwhile, OCF Realty waits to see if two of its mixed-use developments – the subject of pitched meetings in Point Breeze – will get zoning variances.
Saving Stanton, ZBA and the future of Powelton Village, tax appeals favor property owners, Darrell Clarke’s ascent
Ronald McDonald house as perfect reuse, billboard rumble on Moyamensing, deepening the Delaware, Temple’s Philly civil rights archive
Modernist Hillman Medical Center demolition underway
Demolition of the Sidney Hillman Medical Center at 22nd and Chestnut started Monday to make way for a new residential high-rise being built by John Buck Co. of Chicago.
Farewell Autumn
Developers got their zoning variances to build at 631 South 9th, and the Autumn mural looks like its days are truly numbered.
Philadelphia, what are you taking for your Jane Jacobs Complex?
Planners have been called onto the mat lately as trivial technicians, incapable of generating serious urban change because they’re too burdened by deference to the grassroots.
Paul Aylesworth wonders if planners really are stuck balancing professional expertise and public input, or if planners can to get over their “Jane Jacobs Complex” to build more just and well-planned cities by working with the public in new ways.
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