Affordable housing nonprofit Mission First evicts residents of The Arvilla in West Philadelphia, displacing a community of low-income families. Ali Roseberry-Polier has the details

After a long, mysterious hiatus, historic district nominations are back on the City’s agenda. Next stop: Wayne Junction. Starr Herr-Cardillo reports

The DNC has a former West Philly resident revisiting days of ward committees, election judging, and driving the election results to City Hall Annex. Philadelphia big D- and little d-democratic life

Temporary art installation Ci-Lines opens this Saturday inside the ornate, vacant St. Andrew’s Chapel on Spruce Street in West Philly. We spoke with the project’s artist Aaron Asis about community engagement, vacant and abandoned site activation, and urban preservation

Our pages are filled with stories of churches being demolished and replaced with prosaic architecture. But sometimes the process reverses. In West Philly, the University City Chinese Christian Church has transformed a languishing unfinished strip mall with subtly elegant modern architecture

A developer has plans to build 92 units (with only 6 parking spaces) on the corner of 43rd & Baltimore, across the street from Clark Park—but they’re open to suggestions. Clarkmore Group LLC and the Spruce Hill Community Association begin their community engagement process this evening at the International House

The source of Barnes’ fortune? Vivienne Tang traces it to a pharmaceutical factory in an old hotel (which, incidentally, now houses a pharmacy), where Barnes hung his paintings and taught his employees his theories on art and learning

The Board of L&I Review votes 2-2. The tie vote means the defendant–the University of Pennsylvania–wins, allowing demolition of the Levy Leas mansion at 40th and Pine. An appeal will go to the Court of Common Pleas