Upper North Philadelphia
Council Districts: (4) Curtis Jones, Jr.; (5) Darrell Clarke; (7) Maria D. Quinones-Sanchez; (8) Donna Reed Miller; (9) Marian Tasco
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Councilman Darrell Clarke, 5th District Update, February 2009
Neighborhoods include:
Tioga
Feb. 5 / By Thomas J. Walsh
The 12.4-acre, $72 million Salvation Army/Kroc endeavor will feature a 130,000 square-foot neighborhood center designed by Andropogon Associates and MGA Partners. It sits on a desolate parcel in one of the area’s poorest neighborhoods and could well be the greenest development ever undertaken in the city.
Health concerns appear to be the new Square One for redevelopment of blighted neighborhoods, specialists said at an Urban Sustainability Forum last week. Solutions are being sought by “building safer communities through sustainable land use.”
New weekly photo dominant feature examines the peculiar historic and architectural nature of Philadelphia's hundreds of unique neighborhoods. This week we focus on the 1600 block of Rowan Street in North Philadelphia.
