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WebLinc Campus Expanding To Historic London Coffee House
“The 5th floor is the top one of 12 N. 3rd Street, one of the HQ buildings for WebLinc. Note the slanted ceilings.” | Technical.ly PhillyTechnical.ly Philly talks to Darren Hill, cofounder and CEO of...
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Life Of Pie: Fitler Square’s Academy Of Adaptive Reuse
New on old, at The Philadelphia School | Photo: Bradley MauleThe Philadelphia School, one of the city’s great private schools, puts adaptive reuse into a very clear context in its leafy Fitler Square...
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Paintin’ The Town Brown In The Forest Of Morris
Out on a Limb: human-sized robin’s nest | Photo: Bradley MauleWhen I left Philadelphia to live in Oregon, I knew I’d miss the four seasons—four actual seasons with four distinct conditions and...
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Resurveying The Deindustrialization
Kensington, deindustrialized and disoriented | Illustration: Joseph G. BrinThe old joke of developing natural lands into towns and cities is that we chop down trees, lay down the asphalt, and then name...
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Delays & Unexpected Costs At Dilworth Plaza
Photo: Kimberly Paynter, for NewsWorksThe opening of a renovated Dilworth Plaza by City Hall has been pushed back a few months, reports NewsWorks, to Labor Day at the earliest. Center City District CEO...
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Rock & Roll For Rail For Real
Phase One | Poster by The Heads of StateWith a star-studded lineup taking the stage one block from the Reading Viaduct tomorrow evening, the Friends of the Rail Park take a huge step in making its...
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The Cloisters, Revisited And Retold
Editor’s Note: When Hidden City staff writer Christopher Mote’s series “How to Reuse a Church” was published in May, it included the former St. Agatha Roman Catholic Church among the top ten shining...
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Beta Testing A Revolutionary Museum
Photo: Emma Lee, for NewsWorksFor three hours on Friday (11AM-2PM), visitors to will be offered a sneak peek of Third & Chestnut’s Museum of the American Revolution, with General George...
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The Guy With The Wood People On His Porch
Ice cutting operation. Sand Lake NWR, South Dakota | Photo: Wikimedia CommonsBefore your time and mine, the iceman delivered hand-cut ice blocks to neighborhoods. Harvested from frozen ponds, the thick...
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Great Bell Display At Christ Church To Allow Bell To Be Rung Again
The Great Bell in its proposed location in the Christ Church garden | Image: Moto DesignshopPerhaps the oldest surviving bell in North America, the Great Bell of Christ Church, will get a new...
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Weighing Futures In The Central Northeast
The Central Northeast | Map: Philadelphia City Planning CommissionThe Philadelphia City Planning Commission has workshopped and forumed and charretted and massaged the Central Northeast District Plan...
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Land Bank Dispute Reportedly Settled
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Rally To Save The Boyd Tuesday
Boyd Theater auditorium, 2013 | Photo: Chandra LampreichThe advocacy group Friends of the Boyd turns to the public once more in the long fight to save Center City’s last movie palace, the Boyd Theater...
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City Making Progress In Tax Collection Efforts
Photo: David Swanson, for The InquirerThe Nutter administration is making “modest but measurable gains in the collection of taxes, chipping away at a delinquency epidemic that is among the worst of any...
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Don’t Call It A Warehouse
Photo: Peter WoodallThe last days on any job are usually bittersweet, especially when the company you work for has closed up shop, and you’re part of the skeleton crew that’s cleaning out the factory....
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Playing The Hand That The El Dealt
Rendering by Interface Studio ArchitectsThe Philadelphia Real Estate Blog looks at an impressive example of a developer acknowledging his project’s weaknesses while playing to its strengths. Peter...
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Boyd, Blue Horizon Top Preservation Alliance 2013 Most Endangered List
Legendary Blue Horizon | photo: Bradley MauleFaced with a developer’s plan to demolish the art deco interior of the Boyd Theater, the long shuttered movie palace has been named one of 36 endangered...
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The Smoky Haze Of History At McGlinchey’s
Cheers, mate: McGlinchey’s feelgood parallelograms | Photo: Bradley MauleOh, McGlinchey’s. So many fond memories of this place dating back to my first days as a Philadelphian. Whenever I mention this...
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Two Residential Projects Break Ground In Francisville
Image: Interface Studio ArchitectsFlying Kite looks at Francisville’s Folsom Powerhouse, the latest Redevelopment Authority project, which broke ground in late October. In eighteen months, 10 rentals...
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A Petaled Rose Of Hell: Refineries, Fire Risk, And The New Geography Of Oil...
Philadelphia’s front door: Paul Santoleri’s cheery 1999 mural for Sunoco and the Mural Arts Program greets visitors to Philadelphia from the airport at the eastern base of the Platt Bridge—in the...
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