Preservation With Churches Fast Disappearing In Fishtown, A Chance To See What’s At Stake What to do with all the churches? With the imminent loss of another Fishtown church, New Kensington Community Development Corporation wants you to see what’s at stake–join them for a post-holiday tour. Michael Bixler reports
Art & Design In East Kensington, Housing Development To Replace Little Berlin’s “Fairgrounds” Viking Mills owner selling lot that artists collective has activated for the past four years. Emma Jacobs reports on what’s coming and why
History Truck Into The Fire The Philly History Truck steps—err, drives—into action this evening with the opening of Manufacturing Fire, the first exhibition to come about from the truck’s creative community process.
Preservation Last Gasp For Two Historic Banks In Kensington? Two adjacent banks built in Kensington in the 1880s are threatened with demolition. Christopher Mote has the story of the state tax credits that might make that happen
Art & Design A Little Magic At The EverNever Night Market A pop-up interactive art show on a vacant lot in Kensington–“the greatest underground art carnival you’ll ever see”
Preservation Two Historic Kensington Bank Buildings Get Short End of Zoning Board Decision The ZBA approves the Women’s Community Revitalization Project’s plan for 25 units of low-income housing at the long-disputed site under the El. Preservationists and community groups in Fishtown and Kensington are opposed to the project
Urbanism This Could Be A Park East York and Emerald, in Kensington, a neighborhood plagued by massive vacant lots–all former mills–and yet no public green space
