Friday, March 29, 2024

Follow

Contact

Fairmount

Fairmount CDC just released a report on its neighborhoods’ health results

Jun. 2, 2016 12:29 pm

Fairmount CDC just released a report on its neighborhoods’ health

The community development corporation has been working for the past six months to determine which businesses might do best on its main commercial stretches.
How Two Community Development Corporations Play Different Roles in Brewerytown method

Mar. 3, 2015 11:18 am

How Two Community Development Corporations Play Different Roles in Brewerytown

A lot of Philadelphia neighborhoods don’t have a community development corporation (CDC) — or any kind of devoted community organization — to serve their needs. Brewerytown has two. The Fairmount CDC and the Greater Brewerytown CDC both serve the neighborhood. Their work largely intersects along West Girard Avenue, a rapidly developing commercial corridor often considered […]
Philadelphia’s First Spanish Immersion Preschool is Coming in January 2015 method

Oct. 13, 2014 11:50 am

Philadelphia’s First Spanish Immersion Preschool is Coming in January 2015

Melissa Page’s students were struggling with learning a new language at the magnet school where she taught Spanish and French in Philadelphia. “[My students] were getting so frustrated that they just didn’t have any kind of language ability–they were frustrated that they were doing something so foreign and different and I wanted to change that,” […]