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Neighbors near the planned development at the former Magarity Ford dealership site on Germantown Avenue are planning a legal challenge to new city ordinances allowing the project. Talks are continuing between Bowman Properties More »

Negotiations are continuing in a long-running dispute between an elderly Roxborough man and the nonprofit Intercommunity Action, which wants to build a 40-unit apartment building More »

The relative anonymity in which New Directions for Women Inc. has operated in Germantown since the late 1980s may prove to be a double-edged sword for the private, not-for-profit alternative prison. Now, as the group seeks More »

If you live in Germantown, chances are you heard this week about an upcoming zoning hearing regarding a private women's prison in the neighborhood. You may not know that the facility, New Directions for Women Inc., has been More »

 

The state Historic Preservation Review Board Tuesday approved the creation of a Wayne Junction National Historic District, the beginning of an effort to preserve and redevelop some manufacturing and warehouse buildings left over from the neighborhood's industrial past.  More »

 

With an interim site for next year now in place, the Green Woods Charter School is moving ahead with plans for a new home off Domino Lane in Roxborough. The environmentally-focused charter school will be out of its current home, on the campus of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough, at the end of its lease term on June 30. Classes will begin in September in the former S...  More »

A long-discussed city plan to dredge the Manayunk Canal, aimed at improving water flow and enhancing the environment for fish and birds -- and boaters,More »

There are days, usually in summer when the trees are in bloom and the light is just right, that it's possible to almost miss the empty Carmella's restaurant building on Manayunk's Venice Island. But most days -- especially at this time of year, when the trees along Main Street are bare of leaves -- the structure looms large over Venice Island, publicly decomposing like a road kill ...  More »

The sad, sordid history of the former Ivy Ridge Personal Care Center property in Roxborough could literally be wiped off the map if a developer More »

In Northwest Philly's neighborhoods last year, you didn't have to shop around very far to find tasty stories about land use and development. Last week, More »

In Northwest Philly's neighborhoods this year, you didn't have to shop around very far to find tasty stories about land use and development. And some of the meatiest were somehow related to ...  More »

In partnership with NewsWorks — WHYY's new hyperlocal news site covering Northwest Philadelphia — PlanPhilly's Amy Z. Quinn will cover planning, design and development issues in Chestnut Hill, East Falls, Germantown, Manayunk, Mt. Airy, Roxborough, Stenton/Ivy Hill and West Oak Lane.

 

NewsWorks is the online home of WHYY News and its growing network of journalism partners. This public media service covers the Philadelphia region, Delaware and South Jersey, with a focus on regional issues, neighborhoods, health and science, and arts. It's a site powered by your concerns, questions, views, insights and stories.

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