Plan Philly Notebook

  • Northern Liberties: Get a Free Street Tree at Your Home or Business

    Last year we planted 100 new street trees in NL - now you can apply for one in front of your home or business this Fall.

  • R7 station projects revised by SEPTA

    At Levittown, the authority has decided to replace a tunnel connecting both platforms with an overpass, complete with elevators. The current tunnel has water infiltration problems, and SEPTA originally wanted to improve conditions for riders. SEPTA is also proposing increasing the design contract for the Croydon Station renovations to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. by $303,645, for additional costs related to the discovery of a fiber optic cable running under the Northeast Corridor.

  • Philebrity: no GPS required

    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.

  • Call for Artists: Art + Soul Food

    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.

  • New Marketplace in Francisville

    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.

  • UPDATED: Publications and Newsletters, March 2010

    Publications from City Council, GRID Philly, DVRPC, Next Great City, Preservation Alliance, University City District, Economy League, Fairmount CDC, etc.

  • UC Review: Community Grant Opportunities Announced for University City’s Clark Park

    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.

  • Inquirer: DRPA approves contract for Phila. light-rail studies

    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.

  • Greetings from Shanghai

    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.

  • Weekly Press: Ninety people attend Sierra Club Marcellus Shale Debate

    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.