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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
While there are many moments of breathtaking refinement, the result is sadly a long way from being a successful addition to the city.
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
Powelton Village has every reason to top the list of Philadelphia's most desirable neighborhoods. Let's start with location. As the first residential area west of Center City, it is a brisk 15-minute walk from downtown. It boasts some of the best transit connections in town, a rich stock of...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
A building that runs on half the usual amount of energy? How ho-hum. These days, most new construction in Philadelphia can do that without even trying, simply by adhering to the U.S. Green Building Council's basic LEED standards. What would be really interesting is if someone put up a major...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
The Nutter administration loves to plan stuff. It has probably turned out more master plans in the last four years than the previous two administrations combined. And yet there's one part of the city that it has steadfastly refused to discuss: the I-95 corridor.
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
When the letter arrived in 2007 inviting Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to enter a select competition to design a new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the husband-and-wife architectural team were momentarily stumped. Yes, they were well known among the cognoscenti, who admired their artisanal...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
BOSTON - This city's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum may be as close in spirit as any institution can get to Philadelphia's celebrated Barnes Foundation. While Gardner was a Brahmin socialite who favored Renaissance art and Albert C. Barnes was a perennial outsider drawn to the avant-garde...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
I set out the other day to find the outer edge of the Philadelphia suburbs and ended up in a Chester County subdivision called Oakcrest. Located 45 miles west of Center City, just outside Coatesville, Oakcrest has a network of immaculately paved streets, glossy utility boxes, and an active sales...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
Logan Square, one of William Penn’s original city parks, hasn’t been a true square since the early 20th century, when the city began plowing the Ben Franklin Parkway through Center City’s northwest quadrant. The heart of the square was turned into one of the world’s most...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
Would you live in a house made of dirt? The answer, I'm guessing, is no. As a building material, dirt has an image problem. Mud dwellings are practically synonymous with third-world poverty. At best, an earth structure is something you expect to encounter in an old hippie compound. Yet some of the...
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Inquirer - Inga Saffron - Changing Skyline
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May 26, 2012 - 1:48am
Back in 1993, Philadelphia committed a radical act. It opened a new downtown convention center without a single public parking space. Despite the modest inconvenience, the city’s hospitality industry exploded. Suburbanites flocked in for the popular flower show and other special events, often...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 11:25pm
ATLANTIC CITY — It’s showtime for Revel.Friday marked the $2.4 billion mega-casino’s grand opening, with most of its amenities now operational. Revel opened its glass doors facing the ocean April 2 for an eight-week, "soft opening" preview to work out kinks and phase in half its...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 11:15pm
Nine-year-old Bella Troilo’s lunch Friday with Mayor Nutter was nearly four months coming. He had to cancel his original visit to Sharswood Elementary, where she is in third grade, but Bella was determined to hold the elected official to his word — and did just that.Waiting patiently in...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 10:05pm
Graham B. Spanier, former president of Pennsylvania State University, has sued the school to obtain old e-mails he says he needs to prepare for the investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh into the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.Without the e-mails, Spanier will not agree to be...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 7:18pm
Police charged a 41-year-old Tacony woman Friday with murdering her 18-month-old twin children, an act police sources said was apparently brought on by learning that her husband was having an affair with one of her close relatives.Stacey Smalls, a former corrections officer who most recently worked...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 5:41pm
The holiday flight to the Shore commenced this afternoon with families streaming to the beaches to beat the onset of the summer swelter.Traffic, however, was not cooperating with plans for a quick escape. In Pennsylvania, a tractor-trailer was on fire about 5 p.m. on the Blue Route in Radnor...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 5:26pm
Two separate traffic stops by Pine Hill police earlier this week resulted in drug arrests.On Tuesday, Richard C. Bryant, 24, of Bryce Road, Berlin Borough, was charged with possession of heroin, crack cocaine, and marijuana after he was stopped while driving on Berlin-Clementon Road. Authorities...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 5:25pm
The Philadelphia School Reform Commission on Friday renewed operating agreements with two city charter schools and approved additional students for those two and a third charter.And in a special session otherwise devoted to charter-school issues, the SRC assured parents from Creighton Elementary...
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May 25, 2012 - 5:05pm
Temple University Health System's proposed $318.2 million bond offering received mixed reviews from credit ratings agencies. Standard & Poor's kept the health system at its lowest investment grade, "BBB-," while Moody's knocked it down one notch, to its highest "junk" rating, "...
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 4:50pm
A 22-year-old E. Greenville, Montgomery County, man who was at the wheel of a Pontiac Sunbird early April 29 when it became airborne and landed upside-down in the Perkiomen Creek in Douglass Township, killing the passenger, was arrested Friday on charges of homicide by vehicle while under the...
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Inquirer Business
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May 25, 2012 - 4:15pm
Facebook’s share price climbed more than a dollar Thursday, rising above $33, but the sharp drop since last week’s high-profile initial public offering continued to cause headaches for the social-networking company, its Wall Street underwriters, and investors.
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Inquirer Business
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May 25, 2012 - 3:25pm
Flight attendants for Air Wisconsin, a US Airways Express operator, reached a tentative labor agreement with the company, the Association of Flight Attendants union said Friday.
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 3:22pm
Women dominate the world, at least on Forbes’ latest list of the 100 most powerful celebrities.Teen idol Justin Bieber was the only male to muscle into the top eight, landing at No. 3 behind Jennifer Lopez and Oprah Winfrey, and ahead of Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Brittany Spears, newcomer Kim...
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May 25, 2012 - 2:51pm
In a booming voice able to deaden the rumble of the Frankford-Market El a half-block up South 61st Street, State Rep. Ronald Waters seemed to capture the feelings of his audience in a single sentence.
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philly.com: Inquirer Local and Regional News
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May 25, 2012 - 2:20pm
After months of silence on the issue, Gov. Christie said Thursday that he was moving forward on regulations to install sports betting in Atlantic City casinos and at New Jersey’s racetracks.The addition of sports gambling would "further enhance the experience of people in Atlantic City," the...
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Inquirer Business
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May 25, 2012 - 2:20pm
After months of silence on the issue, Gov. Christie said Thursday that he was moving forward on regulations to install sports betting in Atlantic City casinos and at New Jersey’s racetracks.The addition of sports gambling would "further enhance the experience of people in Atlantic City," the...
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