Anything But Sober
The 19th century beer barons of Philadelphia built breweries that looked more like castles than factories. For our third and final Beer Week installment, we visit the suitably ornate yet sadly vacant Rieger & Gretz Brewery on Germantown Avenue, which a neighborhood group hopes to put on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places > more
What To Do With The City Branch: Return It To Transit As Light Rail
With planning to begin on the underground City Branch railroad connecting to the Reading Viaduct, we asked our contributor Stephen Stofka to provide an alternate vision for light rail extending from the heart of Center City to Fairmount Park and beyond. He says it could cost a fraction of the cost of green space and is practically "shovel ready" > more
What To Do With The City Branch: Make It Part Of A 3 Mile Linear Park and Non-Motorized Transitway
With planning to begin on the underground City Branch railroad connecting to the Reading Viaduct, we asked Paul vanMeter of ViaductGreene to present his vision for turning the railbed into a linear park--a search for authenticity and connectivity in the changing city > more
Digging Deep On The Delaware
More archaeology work to be done on the Delaware waterfront, how the Penn Museum is keeping up appearances, Torresdale Avenue facades to get some help, and tactile urbanism in Germantown > more
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