As we briefly mentioned the other day, the folks from Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival were recently awarded a $400K grant from ArtPlace America. This grant will contribute to the development of an outdoor plaza adjacent to the former pumping station now being renovated to serve as the Fringe Festival’s home at Race Street and Columbus

Yesterday, we presented an admittedly biased plea against Councilman Wilson Goode Jr.'s plan for altering Philadelphia's ten-year tax abatement. Not only did we suggest that Council should be focusing on other much more salient problems facing Philadelphia at this time, but we also issued a warning about the risks of

If you've wondered how some of the Community Design Collaborative's proposals, which are always only concepts and guiding points, become a reality, the 2nd Green School Makeover Competition, a nationwide contest to transform a school with an innovative green project, is one example.

The Henry. C Lea Elementary School at 47th

Back in the fall of 2011, Murray Development LLC built a new house at 1203 Ellsworth St., on the western half of a community garden. By the time spring rolled around, they had sold the 2,100 sqft home for a little over $400K, and what must have been a tidy profit.

While new playground improvements are scheduled for Penn Treaty Park, the Fishtown waterfront park at Columbia and Delaware Avenue immediately north of Sugarhouse, the improvements are only part of a larger long-term redevelopment plan envisioned for the park where William Penn signed a treaty with the Lenni-Lenape Indians in the

The school district is laying off 3,800 teachers, aides, and counselors thanks to a $300M budget deficit. L&I's capabilities for supervising demolition and enforcing safety at job sites is lackluster at best. AVI, severely flawed assessments and all, is poised to tax thousands of middle class Philadelphians out of their

Yesterday, we brought some optimism for the future of a moderately terrifying parking garage at 8th & Arch. Coincidentally, today we have some new information to pass along about a project that should soon rise on a long-vacant lot pretty much next door to this garage. Back in October, we

Whenever we've passed by 850 N. 4th St. previously, we wondered exactly what the builders were thinking when they set the homes back so far from 4th Street. Were they offering their buyers a chance for some added privacy? Were they hoping that folks would appreciate what was essentially a

The best twenty bucks we spend every year is on our residential parking permit. Annually, we've religiously trekked to the Philadelphia Parking Authority offices at 30th & Market to renew our permit, fulfilling the annual program of forgetting to send the renewal back in the mail in a timely fashion. This

Slowly, in phases and through various projects, the goal of revitalizing the six mile stretch of the Delaware River waterfront that runs from Allegheny to Oregon Avenues through placemaking set forth in the Master Plan for the Central Delaware is manifesting.

In late May, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC), which oversaw the master planning