News Links: Inside Drexel University’s Innovation Neighborhood, New Map of Tax-Delinquent Properties, PA to Audit School District

State and city budgets have designated funding for the first phase of transforming the Reading Viaduct into a park. The first segment to be retrofitted will be the “spur” that connects the viaduct with North Broad Street. [Inquirer]

With the Philadelphia 2035 Lower Northwest District Plan approaching, Plan Philly explores East Falls business corridor, looking at some of its current strengths and areas in need of improvement. [Plan Philly]

Axis Philly created a map of tax-delinquent properties in Philadelphia. The app is designed to “map not just of the city’s tax-delinquency problem, but also of the incredible opportunity for the re-use of abandoned land and property that problem presents,” Isaiah Thompson writes. [Axis Philly]

In effort to understand the impact of Governor Corbett’s desicion to cut reimbursements to schools who lose students to charters, the PA Auditor General Eugene DePasquale will audit the Philadelphia School District. [Newsworks]

The New York Times looked into Drexel University’s plan to build over the 75-acre rail yard adjacent to the university’s campus. [New York Times]