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Neighbors to challenge zoning changes to 8200 Germantown Ave. project
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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 »

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Longtime Roxborough resident speaks out against Interac expansion plans

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 »

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Germantown residents: Private women's prison should tell us more about future plans

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 »

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Private women's prison future focus of community meeting in Germantown tonight

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 »

 

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State review board approves creation of Wayne Junction National Historic District

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 »

 

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Green Woods Charter School preps for move to Domino Lane

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 »

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Manayunk Towpath improvement project nears completion while canal dredging gets underway

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 »

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What's next for Manayunk's abandoned eyesore on Venice Island?

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 »

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WNCA tables plans for new homes on former Ivy Ridge assisted living site

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 »

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Northwest Philadelphia development stories to watch in 2012

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 »

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Top 5 Northwest Philadelphia development stories of 2011 -- No. 4

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 »

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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.

 

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