Bill introduced to name new Marian Anderson baseball facility as the Ryan Howard Training Center

More than $2 million is being spent on a new addition to Marian Anderson Recreation Center for the Major League Baseball Youth Academy. Improvements to the center include new indoor batting cages, classroom space and more as part of a

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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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PHS pop-up garden to return to South Street West for a third year

Last year South Philly was lucky enough to have two pop-up gardens, one at 9th and Wharton and one on South Street West. For 2016, we’ll only be seeing one of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Gardens in our neighborhoods. The

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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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