The hulking Heid Building weighs down the block with blighted potential | Photo: Michael BixlerThe real estate market is rapidly picking up quick around 11th and Spring Garden. Will someone please wake this slumbering giant with a loft conversion? | Photo: Michael Bixler
Philadelphia erupted with real estate growth in 2015. Yet, some of the city’s most noticeable properties remain ragged, empty and trapped in limbo. GroJLart has this year end survey of the city’s top ten down-and-out buildings begging for redevelopment.
Obey Giant‘s “The Stamp of Incarceration: James Anderson” comes in at #5 on our list of most popular murals of 2015.
The mural, part of our Open Source exhibition, was designed by Shepard Fairey and painted by men who are incarcerated at Graterford State Correctional Institution. You can find it installed at 1131 Callowhill Street.
Shepard’s “Stamp of Incarceration” series depicts people who were incarcerated, but are now doing inspiring and noteworthy things with their lives. For this mural, Shepard chose to highlight James Anderson, a human rights activist and Program Administrator at The Anti-Recidivism Coalition. The portrait is based on a photo by Barbara Davidson.
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