City Archives Opens New HQ In Northern Liberties
New digs in NoLibs for the Philadelphia City Archives. Michael Bixler has the details > more
Marked Potential: Northern Savings Fund
Interior architect Shila Griffith brings SoHo art space sensibilities to the vacant, fortress-like Northern Savings Fund bank at 6th and Spring Garden with this month's Marked Potential > more
Planning Commission Meeting Elicits Fears Of Displacement In Point Breeze
Inside a rather tense Planning Commission meeting, how the Manufacturers’ Clubhouse was once even more stunning, flexible residential planned for Callowhill, and feedback needed for new bus shelter placement > more
Finding Robert Wood: The Long Lost Foundry Of An Iconic Ironworker
Robert Wood's renowned foundry at the corner of Ridge Avenue and 12th Street on Spring Garden Street once produced some of the nation's finest ornamental iron work. The neighborhood is slowly awakening with renewal, yet the revered company's former site remains an empty, blighted lot > more
Offices To Replace Finnigan’s Wake
Bill introduced to rezone former Democrat hangout, thinking about civic monuments, the expansive truss of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, the Good Samaritans of Port Richmond, and transit display unveiled in Commerce Square > more
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