PennDOT To Buy Out Property Owners To Widen I-95
Reviving 95 through eminent domain, a mixed-use for Spruce Hill, Wissahickon Park grows by six-acres, and marveling at a Furness-lookalike on the Avenue of the Arts
View ArticleBoyd Proposal To Draw Challenge From Preservation Alliance
Design would call for interior’s “gutting,” the city gets realistic in its treatment of the ailing homeless with a new respite center, Wynn loses confidence in Philly gaming market, and thinking about...
View ArticleRailside Beautification
The arrival of the aesthetically pleasing post-industrial train corridor, Viveros depicts Frankford’s past and character in murals, previewing the Central Northeast District Plan, and an interactive...
View ArticleOn Diamond Street, A View Of Medieval France
Gothic Revival at the doorsteps of TempleTown, MLK Day of Service in North Philly cemetery, the BRT booked through ’19, and three suggestions to get out this week
View ArticleActing On A Little Blind Faith, Preservation Of Frankford Mansion Moving Along
Another go for the reuse of Frankford mansion, restriping approved for Washington Ave, architectural portraiture at its finest, and planning underway for senior living project in Mantua
View ArticleIs Philly Ready For A Political Convention In ’16?
Considering corporate benevolence with the prospect of Dems coming to Philly, a call for municipal federalism, Comcast’s Buchholz leading next tower effort, and reanimation at the Destination Frankford...
View ArticleDesigning A Place To Pause In Frankford
Hot pink attraction set to pop up in the spring, coalition stops William Penn High deed transfer, Philly's housing market affordable for millenials, seven homes to rise in "Port Fishington," and on...
View ArticleSunny Strobe Lights On The El With Yiayia
Harry K. recalls the magical light show that the Market-Frankford Line provided him and his grandmother during their Sunday morning trips into the city in the early 1970s
View ArticleA Lost Furness Chapel And The Stories It Tells
An obscure Frank Furness gem sits vacant and unused in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Frankford. Joe Brin has the details of this Moorish discovery and thoughts on Furness, preservation, and urban development
View ArticleFragments Of The Franco Belgium Society In Frankford
Underneath a thick coating of concrete and graffiti lies the former home of The Franco Belgium Society. Memories of the French and Belgian presence that arrived in Frankford during WWI has mostly been...
View ArticleIs This The Train Tragedy We’ll Learn From? (Updated)
It's hard to imagine last night's Amtrak tragedy being any worse when at least seven people are confirmed dead. But the derailed Train 188 stopped just shy of a parked oil train. Brad Maule ponders the...
View ArticleMillennials Mortgaging Kensington
Kensington home prices on the rise, state recommends traffic interventions on Frankford’s Castor Ave, grants in West Philly, and 30th Street IRS building may be sold
View ArticleBridging National Divides In Northeast Philadelphia
Selling the Northeast to tourists, discerning a Richardsonian beneath billboards on North Broad, and trading parking spots for flower beds on Bainbridge
View ArticleArchdiocese Plans Affordable Senior Housing On South Broad
Catholic Health Services to build affordable senior housing on South Broad, nuisance clothing donation bins being removed, the next decade of changes for the Schuylkill, Butkovitz says City not too...
View ArticleCommunity Meeting Reveals Widespread Indignation With Jewelers Row Demolition
Jewelers bemoan Toll Brothers plan, bowling lanes and movie screens coming to Canal Street entertainment district, ethnic masses sustaining several former Catholic parish churches, keeping libraries...
View ArticleMarked Potential: Roosevelt Theater
In Frankford, the Roosevelt Theater faces the El like a careworn sentry guarding the legacy of the city's last movie palaces. Shila Griffith invigorates the empty, ivory giant with a photography and...
View ArticleAmerica’s Oldest Road Takes Center Stage In New Documentary
The King's Highway, the oldest continuously used road in America, is the subject of an award winning documentary premiering tonight at the Kimmel Center
View ArticleA Lost Furness Chapel And The Stories It Tells
An obscure Frank Furness gem sits vacant and unused in Mount Sinai Cemetery in Frankford. Joe Brin has the details of this Moorish discovery and thoughts on Furness, preservation, and urban development
View ArticleFragments Of The Franco Belgium Society In Frankford
Underneath a thick coating of concrete and graffiti lies the former home of The Franco Belgium Society. Memories of the French and Belgian presence that arrived in Frankford during WWI has mostly been...
View ArticleIs This The Train Tragedy We’ll Learn From? (Updated)
It's hard to imagine last night's Amtrak tragedy being any worse when at least seven people are confirmed dead. But the derailed Train 188 stopped just shy of a parked oil train. Brad Maule ponders the...
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