Development
Vacant Properties in Point Breeze To Become Affordable Housing
The trend of socially conscious development continued this week, as the transferral of two Point Breeze properties to the Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) was approved by the Philadelphia […]
Could Youth Hoops Kickstart a Turnaround at Logan Triangle?
The story so far: There’s this 40-acre hole in Logan that as of now continues to drag the neighborhood down with it. Ever since every […]
Philly Orchard Project Gets Anonymous $100K Grant
A latter-day Johnny Appleseed has just given a citywide community orchard program a huge chunk of, ahem, seed money to help it create green infrastructure […]
Slowing Gentrification By Building Up
According to a recent story in Governing, the city of Miami might have found an interesting deterrent against gentrification: Height restrictions on development. Not the creation […]
New Live Nation Music Venue Coming to Fishtown
The old Ajax Metal Co. building in Fishtown—situated across from SugarHouse at Frankford Avenue—is undergoing a $32 million renovation courtesy of the House of Blues Entertainment division […]
Scientists Are Growing Vaccine-Laced Lettuce at Penn’s New South Bank Site
The Inquirer’s Inga Saffron took a look last week at Penn’s short-term plans for its new site on the South Bank of the Schuylkill River, which […]