Sign outside the Parkwest Town Center. Photo via Goldenberg Group The nonprofit affordable housing developer Community Ventures is working with the registered community organization (RCO) Parkside Association of Philadelphia to create new senior and affordable housing and park space along the beleaguered 52nd Street corridor between Lancaster and Parkside Avenues in the West Parkside and […]

Located on Disston Street and Longshore Avenue, Computer Guy improved its storefront from the Commerce Department. Image via Tacony CDC The Tacony CDC has forged ahead with its Historic Tacony Revitalization Project along Torresdale Avenue. The most recent developments include regular corridor street cleaning, interest in a co-working space, continued city Commerce Department grants, and the opening […]

Advocates are hopeful that by the end of 2014 you will be able to locate lots like this one (located at 4th and Thompson in Lower Kensington) through an online database. It has been almost three months since City Council passed legislation forming a land bank in Philadelphia. Now, a leading land bank advocate, the […]

The People’s Emergency Center (PEC) has now served 127 and counting West Philadelphia residents through its new Financial Opportunity Center (FOC) in the month and a half since it opened in Mantua. The center is a partnership between PEC, the Philadelphia Local Initiatives Support Corporation (Philadelphia LISC), Citi Foundation, and other private funders. PEC’s Financial […]

The nascent Germantown United CDC hired its first staff member and appointed a new president to its Board of Directors. The Board decided that the CDC needed a part-time staff member to expand its presence. Andy Trackman, who at the time served as board president, was named executive director at the beginning of February. Garlen Capita, […]