EPA Grant Awarded To Clean & Develop Contaminated Land In Riverwards
$200K to be put to use in Bridesburg and Port Richmond, HUD looks at alternate plans for Queen Lane apartment complex, the city is still growing, and Chestnut Place to go residential > more
Inside The Colorful Creative Compound
Frankford's Globe Dye Works cranked out dyes and bleaches and yarns for 140 years; for the better part of the past decade, it's cranked out a creative, industrial spirit. With the Hidden City Festival 2013, the Dufala Brothers seize on that spirit to bring Oil & Water to life > more
CHOP Facility To Offer More Public Space Along Schuylkill
South of the South Street Bridge to be enlivened, “Imagining Frankford” set for completion, reconstruction on Buttonwood foreshadows a reemerging Callowhill neighborhood, and the Department of Making + Doing invites you to its launch party > more
The Raymond G. Perelman Plaza A Game-Changer For Drexel
Previewing the infill public space for University City, “Soul Manufacturing” comes to Philly, the imperative of saving the Boyd, and a look back at the old Frankford Terminal > more
Bottleneck At The Historical Commission
A political dispute over the designation of the Overbrook Farms Historic District coupled with perennial shortstaffing issues at the Philadelphia Historical Commission has brought the historic designation process to a halt, leaving vulnerable buildings and the proposed Washington Square West Historic District in bureaucratic limbo > more
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