Five More Vulnerable Mills
We look at the complicated factors that make certain industrial buildings susceptible to fire--and present a list of buildings that deserve proactive attention > more
Mural Arts’ Jane Golden Adapts To Spate Of Threatened Murals
With development occurring in sometimes unexpected places, the Mural Arts Program recalibrates its thinking on mural placement. Peter Woodall has this and much more, in a revealing interview with the thoughtful director of MAP, Jane Golden > more
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’s Up With The Gretz Brewery?
In our second Beer Week installment, Dan Wisniewski finds another vintage brewing plant, the 1861 Gretz brewery, with some motivated advocates pushing for reuse, but no clear path forward > more
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