Mill Creek
New Police headquarters in West Philly means sale for Roundhouse, Health Department buildings
It's looking ever-more likekly that someday the historic Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building at 46th and Market streets will become a new headquarters for the Police, Health Department, and city morgue. …
New - and reused - recommendations for West Market Street
A new Philadelphia City Planning Commission report finds that mixed-use development centered around transit stops, replacing large surface parking lots with more active uses and the relocation of some city services…
West Philadelphia: Center for Culinary Enterprises set to open
This article was created in partnership with Temple University's capstone journalism course Philadelphia Neighborhoods. By Ben Griffiths Taria Dean, owner of T’s Tasty Tater Salad, Inc., was present for the…
ABOUT MILL CREEK
Mill Creek is generally bounded by West Girard Ave to the north, Belmont Avenue to the east, 52nd Street to the west and stretches from Haverford Avenue to Market Street in some areas. It is named for the a large creek which was culverted into a sewer in the 19th century.
The neighborhood was formerly home to Mill Creek Apartments, a public housing project designed by Louis Kahn in the early 1950s. Its three 17-story high rise project towers were demolished in 2002 and replaced with suburban-style low-rise houses, a development named Lucien Blackwell Homes after the congressman.
UPCOMING EVENTS IN MILL CREEK
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