Development Real Estate Brochure For Vacant School Sounds Alarms in Germantown Neighbors rally around Germantown High School after a real estate listing revealed potential redevelopment plans. Emily Birdy Busch has the ...
Development Twitter Bot Reveals Revenue Loss From Tax Abatement Starr Herr-Cardillo catches up with the software engineer behind Philly Tax Abatements, a new Twitter account that aggregates the cost of City money lost to the 10-year tax ...
Photography From Gas Masks to Bricklaying Class: Life & Lessons at Bok Technical High School With the reinvention of the Bok Building well underway, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania give us an exclusive glimpse of school life there in the ...
Development City For Families? Millennial Parents Say So If schools are a key to retaining families, what is Philadelphia to do? Quite a lot, says David Feldman, who takes us inside the parent and community-led movement to invest in ten public elementary ...
Photography At Bok Tech, School’s Out Forever This final day of school doubles as the final day of service for 23 public school buildings across the city. It's the sad end to a chapter written by students, teachers, alumni, and communities. Katrina ...
Preservation Coming To Grips With Closing Schools And A Talk With Superintendent Hite Next week, the School District of Philadelphia will shutter 23 schools across the city. Jessie Fox interviews Superintendent Dr. William Hite, while a grassroots group of artists band to document the closings and the nearly ...
Art & Design Spare A Dime For Bok’s Memories: WPA Play Begins Tonight The group CosaCosa brings the politics of the New Deal into a New Deal-funded auditorium in a school about to close--a song cycle for a cycle of economics and politics. Katrina Ohstrom previews the PIFA ...
Architecture Final Bell Nears At Brutalist Southwest Philly Middle School On the southwestern edge of the city, beneath the roar of PHL's airplanes and the calls of migratory birds at Tinicum, sits Pepper Middle School. Brad Maule profiles the brutalist beast that's being phased out ...
