The boom of North Broad is apparent as soon as one passes City Hall. Hanover North Broad, a mixed-use development consisting of two apartment buildings at the corners of Broad and Callowhill, has been rising since breaking ground earlier this year, and will serve as the gateway to North Broad when it opens in 2017.
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NOTO is opening a 1,000-person club in Chinatown next month.
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The Divine Lorraine lobby’s restorations are underway. | Photography by Melissa Romero
While we continue to wait for the apartment building’s return—it’ll be another year or so—it’s worth remembering what the storied Divine Lorraine lobby once looked like at its peak. These archived photos from the Library of Congress were taken in 1933 for a Historic American Buildings survey. Developer Eric Blumenfeld’s team has said before that they’re using these photos to return the lobby to its original …
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Hello members, neighbors and friends
As you probably know Phase One of the Rail Park, located in Callowhill, will soon begin construction. The Knight Foundation is a making a significant capital investment in the Viaduct Rail Park and asking for our help . Below is a link to a Knight Foundation survey being managed by Penn Praxis. Please fill it out – it won’t take long ! and please share with residential and business neighbors, condo boards etc.
https://goo.gl/forms/EAkrMw5T9SmHm1er2
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[MICHAEL BRYANT / Philadelphia Inquirer] Ryan Beck paints a mural in Callowhill as part of an outdoor gallery project. Developer Craig Grossman, who sought and partially funded the project, seeks to rebrand a gentrifying stretch between Eighth and 12th, from Noble to Spring Garden Streets, as Spring Arts.
This developer-driven model diverges from the traditional, bottom-up Mural Arts process, which is open to any applicant with a wall and an idea. It’s also a novel approach to creating a sense …
Barrier. Obstacle. Divider.
Nobody at last week’s Every Place Counts meeting had anything nice to say about the Vine Street Expressway when asked for one-word descriptions of the submerged highway.
But everyone in attendance, from Mayor Jim Kenney and his staff, to representatives from Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) and community activists, to PennDOT and U.S. DOT staff signaled optimism that the Expressway’s worst impacts on the neighborhood could be mitigated through interventions of varying intensities and price-tags.
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CLEM MURRAY Michael Garden at the Reading Viaduct, now renamed Rail Park.
The golden summer morning was perfect for a stroll on the Reading Viaduct, Philadelphia’s answer to New York’s High Line. The difference is that Philadelphia’s version has no architect-designed staircases or glass elevators to bring visitors up to the postindustrial wonderland. To get inside, you have to venture up an overgrown ramp, bushwhack your way through chest-high weeds, then shimmy through a large opening in a chain-link security …