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Months after the botched demolition that left six people killed in the neighboring Salvation Army store, Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order that created […]
The Inquirer reports this morning that a “blue-ribbon panel” is recommending that the Department of Licenses & Inspections be split into two agencies — one focused […]
For Pete’s Sake had been in the midst of an expansion recently. The bar at Front and Christian had been working to expand to a second […]
Nobody was hurt, but that was a close one! The building that houses For Pete’s Sake Pub in Queen Village partially collapsed yesterday around 3:30pm. […]
It’s not even city-owned blight, which begs the question…if it had it been, how much longer would it have taken? After almost a year of […]
The Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections’ demolition oversight procedures are still unsafe, City Controller Alan Butkovitz reported Thursday, a year after the deadly Salvation […]
City-owned blight may be the hardest to get rid of, but in the meantime Licenses and Inspections has been making an effort where it can. […]
The city still festers with zombie properties, many of which have the label “imminently dangerous.” But we already know this, know the age-old adage of […]
The writing has been on the wall for a long, long time for former L&I Deputy Commissioner Dominic Verdi, who resigned way back in February […]
[This post was updated at 5:30 p.m. to reflect new information from a 4 p.m. L&I press conference] The aftermath of the collapse at the […]
When you think of a DIY music venue, you probably think of a warehouse in Kensington where people with cool glasses, beards, tattoos and piercings […]
The Daily News’ Jason Nark reports today that L&I is taking the Church of Scientology to Blight Court for allowing the building it purchased at […]
While driving through South Philadelphia on Monday — the same day that contractor Griffin Campbell was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the tragic […]
On October 30th, Mayor Nutter announced the creation of a blue-ribbon commission to examine the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) in a never-ending reaction […]
Sometimes it’s endearing when very smart people have gaps in basic knowledge. Let’s say, for instance, that a MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient still has a […]