I recently walked through Lenfest Plaza outside the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to see how people were using the…
Good morning, Philly. It's a chilly and damp fall day, and it's only going to get cooler as the day goes…
The city has officially posted notice that the Dilworth Plaza construction project will begin imminently. Daniel J. Keating Company was announced…
Earlier this year Avenue of the Arts announced the first steps of a $50 million campaign to improve North Broad Street’s…
PlanPhilly’s Kellie Patrick Gates reports from yesterday’s City Council Rules Committee and Philadelphia City Planning Commission meetings. Here’s a roundup: The…
While big book stores struggle to stay open, Philly scored another independent. At the corner of 7th and Sansom Streets, AIA…
In a sharp opinion piece in Monday’s Daily News, Architect Kiki Bolender takes City Council to task for introducing its own…
PlanPhilly reporters are following lots of stories this week: including rezonings on Delaware and Germantown avenues, SugarHouse expansion plans, and the…
We've been treated to some exceptionally pretty, long-lasting fall color this year, but the leaves are finally letting go and they're…
For the last few months, as Philadelphia debates the merits of wrapping buildings in advertisements, photographer Tim Simmons installed images…
Snail of Approval Tastings Monday, November 14, 7-9pm. Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Filbert streets. Slow Food Philly celebrates its first…
Tensions growing between City and Occupy Philly grew over the weekend. It looks like Occupy Philly is heading for a showdown…
Veterans Day started out as Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I – at the 11th hour of the…
Philadelphia Produces Original Design (P.POD) Opens Friday, November 11, 5-8pm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. A new pop-up…
At 12th and Catharine Streets, the city is building one of its first new public parks in years. Hawthorne Park construction…
On Wednesday, the Zoning Code Commission approved its final report, and officially ended its five years of work, reports PlanPhilly’s…
If you enter the subway at Centre Square, going down the steps around Claes Oldenburg’s Clothespin, you find a grim…
The Zoning Code Commission issued its version of the final code yesterday, PlanPhilly’s Jared Brey reports. The Commission will vote…