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| May 20, 2021 | Wilmington’s Second Chances Farm prepares for a Philly expansion | Less than two years after its launch, Second Chances Farm founder Ajit George had no plans to expand the indoor vertical farm based in Wilmington. Managing an urban farm during a pandemic presented enough of its own challenges — including t... |
| Mar 12, 2020 | [PULSE] 3 ways to increase and empower Black homeownership | Over the last several months, I’ve read many articles talking about the homeownership gap for black Americans. Each article fuels me to speak with more families to bring awareness to the importance of homeownership and how owning a home can... |
| Feb 19, 2020 | 10 abandoned mansions around the world that likely used to be worth millions | Getty Images
Even the most expensive, extravagant homes can fall into disrepair without proper care.
These mansions were likely worth the equivalent of millions of dollars when they were built.
Years later, they sit abandoned in varying sta... |
| Feb 5, 2019 | Philly’s brand-new roadmap to becoming a smart city is a long-term one | After two years of convening and researching, the City of Philadelphia unveiled on Monday its official SmartCityPHL roadmap, a master plan that will help orient what Philadelphia as a “smart city” looks like — and how it should go about get... |
| Nov 19, 2018 | 5 on-ramps to the world of open data | Open data’s promises of transparency, efficiency and accountability can quickly fizzle if the information can’t get past those who can code.
In other words, it will take a diverse group of engaged citizens — from civic technologists and rep... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | New H Street NE coworking space will be for ‘mature’ millennials | H Street NE suddenly has a glut of coworking options.
The area already offers Locale Workspace, WeWork Apollo and Flex Office Space. By the second quarter of 2019, it will offer a new shared-office experience, this time from Bond Collective... |
| May 2, 2018 | Philadelphia’s problems are daunting. Our opportunities are inspiring | Problems and opportunities are related, but they aren’t the same.
For example, Philadelphia, Detroit and Buffalo face many of the same, related problems: underinvestment, poverty, crime. But their opportunities have more differences. For on... |
| May 2, 2018 | How Fishtown, Philadelphia Became America's Hottest New Neighborhood | |
| May 12, 2017 | This is how The Yard plans to fit in Philly’s coworking market | “You’ll notice there’s no keg here,” The Yard founder Morris Levy said, pointing through a clear glass conference room wall and towards a tiny kitchen. We’re right in the middle of the Brooklyn-based company’s latest expansion: a four-story... |
| Nov 29, 2016 | Watch this video of the Reading Viaduct before it becomes the Rail Park | The newest video from Philly-based videographer Cory Popp, best known for his “insufferably lovely” sense of aesthetic and skyline porn, takes a look at something not quite as pretty (yet): the upcoming Viaduct Rail Park.
This 25,000-square... |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Explore these data visualizations from Azavea’s ‘Summer of Maps’ program | Azavea’s Summer of Maps stuck its landing this week by releasing some sweet datasets made visual — all in the name of helping nonprofits.
The Callowhill-based mapping company just wrapped up its fifth edition of the yearly fellowship progra... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | The Science Center’s billion-dollar development hopes to buck the trend of gentrification | Just north of the University City Science Center’s empire sits a sprawling pile of rubble.
It’s the beginning of a major expansion for the 52-year-old research park — and a major question mark, too. Can the Science Center redevelop this pro... |
| Apr 30, 2015 | The latest plan for a tech office building is right off N3rd Street | It’s starting to look like every real estate developer in town wants a piece of the tech scene.
Here’s the latest plan: four floors of “creative office space,” as the real estate set likes to call it, right off N3rd Street, where Finnigan’s... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | An 8-story, $25M bet that Market East becomes a tech corridor | Can the shabby stretch of Market Street from City Hall to Independence Mall become the city’s next tech corridor? A group of real estate developers thinks so.
They envision floor after floor of offices for the creative class — you know the ... |
| Apr 2, 2015 | Brewerytown just got its first coworking space, and it’s 100% owned by people of color | More and more people are paying attention to Brewerytown. Real estate developers MMPartners announced a plan to invest $60 million in the neighborhood. Another developer is turning an old warehouse into “industrial chic” apartments (complet... |
| Aug 9, 2013 | Philly Is Ugly: timelapse project to launch next week [VIDEO] | Photographer Nathaniel Dodson captures Philly via timelapse. Watch the trailer for the project, dubbed Philly is Ugly, below and get more when it launches next week.
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| Dec 28, 2012 | Truth: not every city can be a tech startup hub [LINKS] | Pretending Baltimore is a startup hotbed ‘isn’t going to make us magically awesome’ [Technically Baltimore] From our sister site comes a post about the need to be realistic about a city’s tech scene — “Baltimore, a tech startup hub? Not a c... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Uber private driver service officially launches in Philadelphia, 11th city expansion | It’s tough to conjecture how San Francisco-based black car taxi service Uber will fair in Philadelphia from a five-block ride to a lunchtime launch event, but CEO and cofounder Travis Kalanick is excited about the challenge.
“I think Philly... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | Media Bureau Network: founder Ben Barnett sells Northern Liberties HQ | For some, it’s hard to say goodbye to the 12,000 square feet of memories on 3rd and Brown Street in Northern Liberties.
After 13 years in its brick layered and artistically decorated home, digital media agency Media Bureau Network is moving... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | NextFab announces plans for new location, Councilman Green wants electronic governance, Philly Flower Show has an app [LINKS] | NextFab Studio Expanding to New Location on Washington Avenue [Geekadelphia] “NextFab Studio is expanding with a new facility at 2025 Washington Avenue in the Southwest Center City area this summer.” NextFab plans larger studio, cafe at 202... |
| Jan 25, 2012 | Curbed.com: new Philly outpost of real estate blog network from NYC to be led by Liz Spikol | The competitive real estate and built environment news community of Philadelphia has a new player.
Curbed.com, the New York City based blog network, which also has regional versions in nine other markets, today launches Philly.Curbed.com. T... |
| The top 10 cities turning old office buildings into apartments—take a look inside | Your old office could become someone’s new apartment: Roughly 41% of converted apartments built in the last two years, or 13,250 units, have come out of ex-offices, according to a report from the apartment-search site RentCafe.
The trend pi... |