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Walking Market Street with Jan Gehl
Cities should be for everyone. Cities should make people healthy and happy. Cities should be designed to respond to human nature…
April 14: SEPTA official to work for smart card consultant | Old City's vexing blight | Johnson v. Feibush: vacant land | Mid-City YWCA annex gone | Franklin Flea returns
Welcome to the working week, Streeters. Today brings another beautiful warm spell and the beginning of Passover. An official who oversaw…
February 13: Comcast expands | Mormon church plans residential tower | Condo King buys Old City properties | Parking debate | South Street's Southwark Theatre
Hello snowed-in Streeters! We hope this Buzz finds you somewhere safe and warm. Now turned to a sleet/snow combo, this storm…
February 10: Losing Kmart | Umbrellas to housing | Boutique hotel for Queen Village | Mantua before Promise Zone | 2013 pedestrian, bike, car tickets | Complete streets in Congress
Welcome to the working week, Streeters. Here’s what we’re interested in this morning. The Gallery may not be beautiful but it…
2012 Endangered Properties List: Philly Modern, breweries, Family Court, and tax credits
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia released its 10th Annual Endangered Properties List [pdf] today, which includes three city-owned buildings, our dwindling…
Callowhill Neighbors appeal Assumption demo | New waterfront zoning in 2013 | 245 hybrid buses replacing diesel | Market West smut duo closes
Good morning, Streeters. Happy Thursday. Today’s City Council agenda [pdf] includes votes on the city’s Complete Streets legislation and residential parking…
City Branch visions | O'Neill advocates more zoning rollbacks | Electric Factory ad-wrap, again | No marker for Wood Street steps
Commercial Corridor, Old York Road | phillytrax, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupGood morning and Happy Friday, Streeters. As you…
Point Breeze eminent domain moves ahead | more variances for retail? | Police still use typewriters | Germantown trash woes | Native American Museum decays | record Restaurant Week
Autumn street| Eyes on the Street Flickr GroupGood morning, Streeters. It’s GIS Day and we’ll be hanging out with mapmakers…
Central Delaware zoning overlay | 40th and Pine update | Campbell Square's tree sculpture | Post is hiring
Blaze | Rob Lybeck, Eyes on the Street Flickr groupGood morning, Streeters. It's feeling more fall-ish today, and the…
October 15-19: Chinatown fight to survive | Ben Franklin Bridge bike ride | Brewfest | reexamining sustainable agriculture
Philadelphia Chinatown’s Fight for Survival Monday, October 15, 4:30-6:30pm. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street. Learn how Philadelphia’s Chinatown has…
3rd and Walnut gusher | Apple Lofts on market (again) | transpo project funding roundup | Kahn Park homelessness | RIP Sen. Specter
Louis Kahn Park, 11th and Pine | Flickr user dan reed!, Creative Commons LicenseGood morning, Streeters. Hope you enjoyed the…
Waterfront wayback trap | Eastern Tower | Healthier bodegas | Tax nonprofit properties | Berm for Eastwick?
Get the wayback machine away from the waterfront, the Daily News editorialize, lamenting the Planning Commission's approval of three development…
New look for Old City: lighting to branding
From big repaving projects, to small design flourishes, Old City has been getting a makeover of late. Along North 3rd Street,…
October 5-7: Furnessadelphia | River City Festival | Sustainability walking tour
Furnessadelphia Friday, October 5, 6-8pm. Art in the Age, 116 N. 3rd Street. Art in the Age and Streets Dept. presents…
Planning Commission OKs 205 Race St, Pier 34-35 plan, changes to Marina View | 40th and Pine update | Made in America cost | 3-1-1 app gossip
Planning Commissioners heard and approved three major development proposals on or near the Central Delaware Waterfront. Despite a mixed response from…
Defending 205 Race Street plan | Council overrides veto, proposes code updates | OCF v. PRA: vacant lot cleanup | Route 34 trolley returns
Old City Civic Association is again fighting a tower proposal, this time a 197-foot tall residential building (with ground floor retail)…
Parkway energy from Made In America | Kimmel rooftop garden rework | Mint tour refreshed | Preserving Tremont Mills
Former Tremont Mills - June 27, 1950 | Department of Records| PhillyHistory.orgMade in America transformed and privatized the Parkway this…
