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Transformation on the Waterfront?
Development

Transformation on the Waterfront?

Developer Michael Samschick’s plans for his Canal Street North project are the most ambitious since Bart Blatstein built the Piazza, but he’s changed up the formula to include national chains. Will it work?

History

Scots Cozy Up To Irish

Scottish memorial sculpture joins Front Street monument row

History

Fire on Water(front)

The Great Conflagration of 1850—a disaster fought with water and technology

History

Poor Little Willow Street

Willow Street: the curious curvaceous chronicle of Cohoquinoque Creek

Photography

Philadelphia Afloat

Steven Ujifusa captured a confluence of antique ships docked on the Delaware waterfront yesterday, which makes them part of Philadelphia as far as we’re concerned, even though technically they were suspended above riverbed belonging to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania


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