December 12-16: PHS holiday pop-up shop, Moviehouse, urban gardening talk, Unsilent Night
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Holiday Pop-Up Shop Monday, December 12- Friday, December 16, 8am-2:30pm daily. Comcast Center, 1701 John F. Kennedy Boulevard.…
Parkside: Philadelphia 2035 Plan Shapes Future Neighborhood Growth
Parkside: Philadelphia 2035 Plan Shapes Future Neighborhood Growth by Kara Savidge for Philadelphia Neighborhoods/PlanPhilly Through the Philadelphia 2035 plan,…
December 9-11: Holiday Pops, Tour Fairmount Park houses, Lucia Fest, Greensgrow Holiday Bazaar
Holiday Pops Opens Friday, December 9. Kimmel Center's Verizion Hall, 260 S. Broad Street. Peter Nero leads the Philly Pops for…
Dickinson Square Park renovation underway
Neighbors may have been surprised in early November to see chain-link fencing pop up around much of Dickinson Square park, but the…
Up-Market East
Market East from 11th Street, Girard Square at left and the Reading Terminal Headhouse at center. Market East has puzzled planners,…
Deadly streets: mapping road fatalities
We talk a lot about creating complete streets and providing everyone - pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists - with safer spaces to…
Emergency grant for 19th Street Baptist Church gives glimmer of hope for urgent repairs
Since late summer, there has been intense speculation that Philadelphia may lose a church by Frank Furness at the corner of…
City Hall tower reopened, Ridge Ave shelter stays til spring, how the taxman assesses, Uptown revitalization
The crack in City Hall’s tower has been fixed and the tower has reopened, reports Heard in the Hall. A…
December 5-9: King Kong, Spring Garden Street Greenway design workshop, Zoning vote, City Hall tree lighting, Trumbauer book talk
Architecture In Film Series: King Kong Monday, December 5, 6:30pm. Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch Street. See the 1933…
Philadelphia's New Day
I got up before dawn on Wednesday to visit Harvard’s Graduate School of Design for a panel called The Philadelphia Story:…
Spring Garden Street Greenway community design workshop on 12/6
Spring Garden Street could someday be a green connector between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. As previously reported here, the public conversation…
Winter Market, Go West! Craft Fest, Grow Strong, Deck the Alley, Winter Wonderland
Winter Market Friday, December 2, 6-10pm, Saturday, December 3, 6-10pm, Sunday, December 4, 1-7pm. The Piazza At Schmidts, North Second Street…
Council approves contentious zoning changes, Who is Germantown?, blight of Divine Lorraine and on Knox Street, Delaware waterfront trail progress
City Council voted Thursday in favor of contentious zoning changes that pave the way for a Dollar Tree will open at…
Mantua: Multimedia Mural Project Addresses Homelessness Among Children
By Christine Fisher & Kara Savidge, for Philadelphia Neighborhoods When Jane Golden, the executive director of the Mural Arts Program, received…
