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The city gossip blog Philebrity, if you’re not familiar (and you really should be, to affect the site’s meme), is by turns nostalgic, cynical, sarcastic, optimistic and civic booster/watchdog. It is a consistently fresh, snarky, intelligent, musically inclined, often hilarious space to crash for coffee breaks every weekday. And it has recently been delving into neighborhood cartography.
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The event transforms the 2700-2900 blocks of West Girard Avenue into art galleries and celebrates art, soul food, and life in the Brewerytown neighborhood. If you're interested, please submit a sample of your work to sharon@fairmountcdc.org by April 15, 2010.
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The Francis Village Market Place will be a full service vendor based open market that will be established on the 1600 Block of Ridge Avenue on approximately 10,000 square feet. There will be estimated room to fit a mix of 30 or more micro and small businesses to serve the Neighborhoods of the Art Museum Area and beyond.
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The full-day program featured programs on town centers, marketing community development, regulations to improve neighborhoods, awakening riverfronts to neighbors, and energy efficiency.
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A waterfront rail line in Philadelphia moved closer to reality yesterday as the Delaware River Port Authority approved a $6.5 million contract for environmental studies and preliminary design.
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One scenario calls for rebuilding a new bus terminal. Second option would involve moving the bus terminal to an underutilized truck loading area under The Gallery.
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Planning and Zoning Code commissioner Natalia Olson Urtecho is currently in China with representatives of the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business for a trade mission to Shanghai and Beijing. She has been corresponding with PlanPhilly since her arrival earlier this week.
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University City District and the Clark Park Partnership has announced it will be awarding up to $3,000 for one or more projects that enhance Clark Park. University City community groups are invited to submit proposals. Eligible projects will include planting, mulching, maintenance, signage, park cleanup, or other permanent improvements to the park.
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Ninety people squeezed into a Marcellus Shale forum co-sponsored by the Sierra Club on the fourth floor of the Philadelphia Free Library on Monday, March 8th, breaking records for a usually quiet lecture series that typically draws twenty to thirty environmentalists.
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Drexel University's Board of Trustees named John A. Fry as the University's 14th president after a unanimous vote, announced Chairman Richard A. Greenawalt. Drexel opened the doors this month to its new Recreation Center designed to become the epicenter of student wellness at the University.
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Planning Commission made judgments on three zoning bills, green-lighted a North Broad street development plan and heard a new “information only” presentation for a hotel at 41st and Walnut.
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Restaurateur Stephen Starr says he's a wine guy but fine suds are on his mind. He plans to open an authentic German-Austrian hall across the street from Johnny Brenda's.
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Now, after a two-year, $29 million renovation, the university is ready to reopen the Baptist Temple on April 14 as a cultural center to anchor the northern section of the city's Avenue of the Arts.
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When it makes its expected debut next March - construction is about 75 percent complete now - the enlarged Convention Center will house what is being billed as the largest ballroom on the East Coast. It will be the 14th-largest convention center in the United States, bigger than even New York's.
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Shifting Gears is an outreach program by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) to help determine bicycle issues and priorities for our region. Shifting Gears seeks the input from bicyclists and non-bicyclists like you through an online survey.
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Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission notes that terrain and size of blocks on Route 34 can influence effectiveness of consolidated stops and signal preemption
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AIR is NOW accepting applications for the 2010-2011 round of artists. Applications are due May 10, 2010.
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Dozens of projects are going to be canceled or delayed. All major expansion and modernization ventures – including smart cards - will be terminated. Fares are also going up. Transit advocates question the agency's approach.
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"It's like moving from a 1946 pickup truck to a Maserati," Tasty's chief executive officer, Charles P. Pizzi, said this week, referring to the company's move from the bakery in Philadelphia's Nicetown section it had occupied since 1922 to the Navy Yard facility.
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Artists living in the Greater Philadelphia area are invited to apply for a public art commission. Artists are asked to envision permanent artwork that will be seen by tens of thousands of pedestrians, shoppers, residents, motorists and SEPTA riders commuting through or passing by stations each day.
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Going against the grain of most city departments, jobs have recently been posted at the Planning Commission and the Sustainability Department. The latter is also moving its offices into the former.
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The petition seeks authorization for 42 tables - a combination of blackjack, craps, roulette, Texas Hold’em and other popular games. With the board's approval, these tables will be added to the slots machines, a restaurant and lounge with outdoor seating overlooking the Delaware, and several casino bars.
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A suggested get together with the Las Vegas casino mogul to familiarize him with the Civic Vision for the Central Delaware creates friction among advocacy group members.
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Plates and decking are being laid out over 11 piers. If work continues at its current pace, PennDOT believes the new bridge should be open in December 2010.
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People’s Emergency Center’s Bernice Elza Homes, an affordable housing program for young homeless mothers opened on October 21. Bernice Elza homes are located at 3801-11 Brandywine Street. Drive by and check it out!