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Imaginative Lighting Proposed For Fishtown
Art & Design

Imaginative Lighting Proposed For Fishtown

The Art Commission will evaluate the renderings for "The Three Clans," by Donald ...
Wanted: An Identity For East Girard
Development

Wanted: An Identity For East Girard

Imagining the future of retail stretch through Fishtown, NKCDC seeks an identity to balance old and new and low cost improvements to put ideas immediately to ...
Appeal Filed To Save Norris Square Banks
Preservation

Appeal Filed To Save Norris Square Banks

Neighbors appeal Zoning Board of Adjustment ruling in bid to save the monumental banks at Front and Norris and keep the site ...
Incentives Coming For Renovating Kensington Mills
Development

Incentives Coming For Renovating Kensington Mills

A "thematic" historic district covering 48 commercial and industrial buildings in Kensington is the start of an effort to turn the Workshop of the World into an asset for the ...
Let’s Get To Work
Preservation

Let’s Get To Work

If we want buildings like Buck Hosiery to be assets rather than catastrophic liabilities then we need to create preservation tools for workplaces, mills, and factories. With another historically important mill sitting vulnerable across the ...
Passing the Buck
Development

Passing the Buck

Under the El in Kensington, the owners of the former Thomas Buck Hosiery, one of the last great mills, fail to protect their property--or pay their ...
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Development

Getting to the Root of the Problem

Urban agriculture needs to be tied to broader strategies of economic development, says Ariel Diliberto in her review of the film "Urban ...
Frankford Avenue Drawing More Than A Dozen New Projects
Development

Frankford Avenue Drawing More Than A Dozen New Projects

With a hotel, theater, market, and new shops and restaurants coming, are the days of drag racing and short dumping over? We survey the scene and talk to some of the developers and observers close ...
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