- A new report from the Planning Commission suggests that the West Market Corridor could prevent further population erosion with four transit-oriented development projects that could generate momentum for the edge-neighborhood. These include the conversion of the Provident Mutual Insurance building at 46th & Market into the next Police headquarters, the New Market project at 59th, redevelopment of a Fresh Grocer parking lot at 56th, as well as a mixed-use project just outside the city limits in Millbourne.
- Kenny Gamble’s Universal Companies will use a recent $100,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation to study the housing, economic and education issues of Point Breeze and Grays Ferry (more specifically: 33rd to Broad and Washington to Snyder). Universal president and chief executive Rahim Islam “said that the goal is to try to tackle short-term goals—like adding recreation and health centers—and long-term ones—like improving early-childhood education and establishing more mixed-income communities.”
- The New York Times looks at the violence associated with union-labor in Philadelphia, at sites like Chestnut Hill’s Quaker Meetinghouse and the Goldtex building conversion on North 12th Street.
- With Martin Luther King Jr. Day just three days away, the Daily Pennsylvanian attempts to establish the “Penn-King connection.” The social activist supposedly took three courses in West Philadelphia from 1949 to 1951—all concerned with philosophy—and then returned in 1965 to give a speech reflecting on the impact of American Law on the impoverished.
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