Demolition notice mistakenly placed on historic 19th Street Baptist Church

The community trying to save the 19th Street Baptist Church had a bit of a scare early this week. A demolition notice was mistakenly placed on the 142-year-old building at 1253 S. 19th St., leading many to believe that this

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Mural of baseball history to be painted on the side of new Urban Youth Academy facility

The news has been rolling in lately about the new baseball facility for the Marian Anderson Recreation Center at 17th and Fitzwater. The Urban Youth Academy center is expected to be completed by June and will be named the Ryan Howard

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What would you like to see on Washington Avenue in the future?

We all know that Washington Avenue is changing. There’s the 32-story Blatstein project and Lincoln Square at Broad Street, the Frankford Chocolate Factory, plenty of other mixed-use projects popping up all along the street, plans for restriping, new businesses and

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Councilman Johnson introduced two bills to push Broad and Washington Lincoln Square project forward

Just after receiving positive feedback from the community at a South of South Neighborhood Association meeting this week, the Lincoln Square developers are receiving some more positive news. In order for the project to move forward at Broad and Washington,

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Community shows support for Lincoln Square development at Broad and Washington

The scene from community meetings for Bart Blatstein‘s massive Broad and Washington project is vastly different than the scene at last night’s South of South Neighborhood Association meeting. The developers behind the Lincoln Square project being proposed for the northwest

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