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Borrow a tool - and learn which one you need - at West Philly Tool Library
The eight-year-old institution is raising funds to buy more tools and host workshops. A researcher says it's helping tool libraries spring up elswhere. New West Philadelphia homeowner Ramon Rincon had no…
Reflections on 40 years of Philadelphia City planning
Newly retired Richard Redding reflects on Northeast Philadelphia, zoning by variance and ordinance, community redevelopment and gentriciation PlanPhilly sat down with recently retired Philadelphia City Planning Commission Planning Division Director Richard…
Philadelphia renters highly involved in their neighborhoods, planning survey finds
Many Philadelphia renters are highly committed to their neighborhoods, concludes a new city planning commission survey. Outside Center City, “many” becomes the majority. This and the other facts found in the …
"Protect our character!" Lower Northwest District Plan taking shape
Community participants tell planners they want to sustain open space and housing styles and density, fill in the gap in the Schuylkill Trail, focus commercial development and move a transit center.…
New Pier 53 park opens on the Delaware, near Washington Ave.
The pier where many Philadelphia families first arrived in this country now welcomes visitors from shore as the city's newest riverfront park. Pier 53, located in Pennsport near the intersection of…
205 Race first Philly development to offer affordable units in exchange for more density
An Old City apartment building can get bigger because rent for 15 of its 148 apartments will be smaller. A provision in the city's new zoning code offers developers a density…
Latter Day Saints meeting house and associated residential tower pass muster at CDR, without public art details
After reviewing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' plans for an apartment tower, townhouses, retail space and a meeting house at 1601 Vine Street, the planning commission's design…
Closing of AC casinos won't influence PA gaming board decision
There's no longer an estimate of when PGCB commissioners will announce their Philadelphia license decision. The closing and prospective shuttering of several Atlantic City casinos legally can't influence the gaming board's…
Council plans to use quality-of-life data to guide future budget decisions
PlanPhilly reporter Jared Brey contributed to this report At a Tuesday press conference, City Council President Darrell Clarke and other members of Council revealed the Community Sustainability Initiative, a plan they…
Tall ships, including a replica of Gen. Lafayette's, coming to the Delaware next summer
Huge sailing ships will head into Philadelphia and Camden next summer for the first tall ship festival held here since 2000, and L'Hermione, a replica of the ship that brought General…
Grove of trees dedicated in honor of park champions at Belmont Plateau
Should Will Smith spend part of this summertime at The Plateau, he'll find a new grove of trees, dedicated this week in honor of both a long-time Fairmount Park advocate and…
SugarHouse begins $164 million expansion, will open interim poker room this fall
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board hasn't picked a winner for the city's second casino license. SugarHouse would prefer the PGCB fold. SugarHouse Casino launched work on its $164 million expansion project…
New water department grant program targeting stormwater management on commercial sites may create new type of Philly business
A rain garden. Photo courtesy PWD. As part of a continuing effort to convince commercial property owners to delay the rain that falls on their property from entering an overwhelmed sewer…
Opinions abound over development scheme for Manayunk's Lower Main Street
A 73-apartment development proposed for Manayunk's lower Main Street is pitting some community members' and city planners' hopes for a livelier streetscape against what others say is the present and future…
Plan calls for apartments/office/retail at former Kensington mill, and new efforts to shut down nearby drug market
A former Kensington textile mill is set to become a mixed-use residential, office and commercial development called Orinoka Mills Civic House. It is part of the New Kensington Community Development Corporation's…
I-95 archaeology exhibit in Kensington Thursday
The objects on display, and experts present, will tell stories of the neighborhoods' industrial, Colonial, and Native American past. Objects that tell stories from more than 5,000 years of Northern Liberties,…
More parking - none of it visible - for Renaissance Plaza
An additional 96 parking spaces have been added to the proposed Renaissance Plaza residential/retail complex at 400 N. Columbus Boulevard, bringing the total to nearly 600 spaces. None of the parking,…
Pew study: Drop in Philadelphia's homeownership rate among highest in nation
Still, more Philadelphians own their homes than do residents of other major East Coast and Midwest cities. And more low-income Philadelphians are homeowners than in most other places, too. Home ownership…
National Museum of the American Indian treaty exhibition featuring Penn Treaty Museum artifact opens in September
This box, part of the Penn Treaty Museum Collection, will be on display as part of the National Museum of the American Indian's treaty exhibition. A box carved from the wood…
PennDOT pleased to meet with waterfront advocates, but says I-95 widening is largely dictated by safety, efficiency standards
Image above shows PennDOT's proposed design for Richmond and Cambria streets. Concerned that the scheduled widening of I-95 through the Central Delaware Waterfront area could exacerbate the separation of city and…
