Urbanism For Callowhill Neighborhood, Whose BIDing Will Be Done? Longtime Callowhill residents and real estate developers clash over the creation of a Business Improvement District as the neighborhood begins to transition. Kimberly Haas has the story
History City Archives Opens New HQ In Northern Liberties New digs in NoLibs for the Philadelphia City Archives. Michael Bixler has the details
Architecture 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
History 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
City Life Brewing With Solidarity At W/N W/N Coffee Bar A cooperative-run coffee and cocktail bar on Spring Garden Street goes deep for the W/N W/N. Joseph Brin has this story of building a business with consensus
History A Rich Past And Possible Green Future For Spring Garden Street The Pennsylvania Environmental Council is hosting a block party this Saturday to highlight plans that would transform Spring Garden Street into a progressive urban greenway. Harry K. is optimistic and gives us the history of this once great thoroughfare
Urbanism The Spring Garden Tunnel: A New Bike Route to West Philadelphia? The unused lane of Spring Garden’s Street seems like a no-brainer to make for a safe bike passage under very-busy Eakins Oval. Or does it? Brendan Skwire tried it out for himself before deciding
Architecture Florists, Seeds, Cordials, And Hats: The M. Rice Building Through a century’s worth of moving, shaking, shifting, and adapting, 1220 Spring Garden Street survives with a five-story tie to the city’s industrial past. The Shadow delves into the many stories of what opened as the M. Rice Building
