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

A reader checked in the other day, suggesting we take a jaunt up to East Girard, to check on the progress of a couple of projects we've mentioned before and one we previously knew nothing about. Off we went, and we did indeed discover some news to pass along.

First, we

After developers spent several months refining their project with the local civic group, more development is planned on Front Street along the shadow of I-95 in Northern Liberties. In April, members of the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) zoning committee approved a proposal for eight single family homes at 933-37 Front St., a

We were in the neighborhood the other day, and spotted some welcome renovation work taking place at 228-30 Arch St., two buildings that have been vacant for several years. Here's an image of them from the late 1970s from Phillyhistory.org, to give you some idea of their history, as well

Last week, a reader shot us an email giving us the heads up about some construction activity, or should we say demolition activity, taking place at the northwest corner of 24th & Federal. This triple-wide property has been a mess for number of years, and we were heartened to learn