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 abatement > more
From Gas Masks to Bricklaying Class: Life & Lessons at Bok Technical High School
With the reinvention of the Bok Building well underway, Patrick Glennon give us an exclusive glimpse of school life there in the 1940s > more
After 16-Year Hiatus, Mid-century Public Art To Return To Public View
The “Free Interpretation of Plant Forms” coming to Chestnut Hill, Point Breeze assents to partial residential conversion of Walter Smith School, neighbor wants to save tree from development in Pennsport, and public schools to double as community centers > more
A New Way To Right Blight
Returning citizens salvaging from blighted properties, the economics of bike corral deregulations, design charrette to consider two shuttered schools, and a new fountain for a South Philly park > more
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 schools > more
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