Urban Planning

Ever since the pandemic, the futures of America’s big-city downtowns have been in question. Center City Philadelphia is just one example of finding new ways to thrive.

Rebuilding Together Philadelphia will fix up a group of homes on the 3200 block of West Huntingdon Street, completing a multi-week effort in the North Philly neighborhood.

The mayor’s initial spending plan did not include city funding for the new 70-unit development in West Philadelphia.

The cleanup started this week in the River Wards neighborhoods. North Philly is next, followed by West, Southwest and South Philly.

A feasibility study will identify a new home for bus travelers in and out of Philadelphia.

Advocates say the bill preserves an important tool for protecting garden land from development.

The Fair Practices Ordinance prohibits landlords from rejecting potential tenants based on how they would pay rent.

The existing port has been operational for a century, but it can’t handle the 1,000-foot ships like the one that destroyed Baltimore’s Key Bridge.

A site in the far northeast could be used for bow hunting later this fall under regulations from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

If the five-person planning commission votes ‘yes,’ Brandywine View Apartments will break ground on 266 market-rate rental units.

Portions of the new network, which trims the number of routes from 125 to 106, will launch on June 1, 2025, and continue through the fall.

The heralded program is scheduled to expire at the end of June if the measure doesn’t become law.