January
2004
January 3, 2004
At first, when word came out that the U.S. Postal
Service planned to close its Lancaster Avenue branch in the Belmont section
of West Philadelphia,
local activists George Dunbar and Aisamah Muhammad just got mad ... By
Carla Anderson
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December 2003
December 2003
University of Pennsylvania wins a 2003 Award for
Excellence from the Urban Land Institute.
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here for full report from the Urban Land Institute website
November 2003
November 30, 2003
The push and pull over stop-and-gos.
Residents want the take-out liquor stores gone. Owners plead bias. City
Council has a plan ... By Anthony S. Twyman
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
November 16, 2003
What do Hamilton Square
in University City and Istanbul in Turkey
have in common? ... By Alan Heavens
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
November
12, 2003
The Bridge: Cinema
de Lux opened its doors on Nov. 8, 2002, and after a year of operation,
the theater has come a long way from the chaos that surrounded its opening
weekend ... By John Carroll
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
October 2003
October
17, 2003
Civic House lecture
explores history of local community. History prof discusses University's
changing relationship with West Philadelphia ... By Elizabeth Rossi
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
October
16, 2003
Community center holds
art, performance event. Local
residents who strolled down Lancaster Avenue this weekend found the street
transformed into a venue for global arts, ranging from dance fusion and
flamenco performances to African drum demonstrations ... By Julia
Barmeier
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
October
15, 2003
Baltimore Avenue
freezeout ... By Daryl Gale
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here for full report in The City Paper
October
06, 2003
Area church trying
to serve as hub for West Philadelphia ... By Elizabeth Rossi
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
September
2003
September 15, 2003
UCD spurring more
growth in West Philly. University City District is expanding its borders
-- one entrepreneur at a time ... By Peter Van Allen
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here for full report in the Philadelphia Business Journal
September
11, 2003
University's retail
has expanded in the last decade. Pod. The Penn Bookstore. Freshgrocer.
The Inn at Penn. University Square. All of these places are staples
in the experience of today's Penn students ... By Josh Gordon
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
September 8, 2003
University-West
Philadelphia relations after 10 years of trying ... By Elizabeth
Rossi
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
September 3, 2003
Postal lands to
change face of Penn's campus ... By Elizabeth Rossi
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
August 2003
Aug 31, 2003
Puppetry
with a social purpose. Spiral Q's goal is to mobilize communities. This
is theater
meant for the street ... By Lucia Herndon
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aug
20, 2003
Institutes of higher learning have a vital role to play in the transformation
of neighborhoods ... By Steve Conn
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here for full report in Philadelphia CityPaper
Aug 7, 2003
The long-awaited decision
to move the big postal distribution center from University City and sell
the 33-acre site to the University of Pennsylvania is a giant step toward
creating a powerful job-generating engine for the region ... By Henry
J. Holcomb
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Aug
6, 2003
Mantua unveils
special services district. Mantua Community Improvement Committee (MCIC)
announced the kickoff of a special services district that will employ
a cadre of youth ... By Mark Brakeman
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here for full report in the University City Review
July 2003
Jul 25, 2003
Dr. Harkavy saw long
ago that the futures of Penn and West Philadelphia are connected. As Director
of the Center for Community Partnerships, he's led a persuasive campaign
to link teaching and research to service and problem-solving. By Susan
Frith
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full report in The Pennsylvania Gazette
Jul
21, 2003
Making a push to preserve
area's historic property. Some sites that don't win broad recognition
still need attention. By John Andrew Gallery
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Jul 14,
2003
Camp steers youth
to rowing. The program aims to give minority children a chance to make
a splash. By Sree Roy.
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here for full report in The Philadelphia Inquirer
June 2003
Jun 26, 2003
Restaurant, stores find homes in empty campus retail
spaces. By Laura Sullivan, Staff Writer.
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
Clark
Park's kids can now play on new, safe equipment—thanks to more than
100 neighbors, businesses, and foundations that helped to match a $50,000
challenge grant from The William Penn Foundation, University City kids
now have a new playground in Clark Park.
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here for full report from the University City District
Jun 3, 2003
A new mural by Karl Yoder will be dedicated on Thursday,
June 5, 2003 at 10:00 AM at 4926 Baltimore Avenue. The mural, "Cedar
Park," is a multi-media mural painted on the side of the Cedar Park
unit of Resources for Human Development at 4926-28 Baltimore Avenue.
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here for full report from the University City District
March 2003
March 4, 2003
New Dental van spreads PennSmiles to children. The vehicle is equipped
to serve as dental stations and will make rounds to West Philadelphia
schools. By Margherita Ghiselli
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
February 2003
February 12, 2003
Money talks, and thanks to West Philly's Enterprise Center,
it's now walking into new
neighborhoods. By Kia Gregory
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here for full report in Philadelphia Weekly
December 2002
Wed, Dec. 18, 2002
Positively 60th Street The post-Safe Streets future
of West Philadelphia is still coming into view. By Steve Volk.
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here for full report in Philadelphia Weekly
October 2002
Wed, Oct. 23, 2002
A Spin Off the Dial WXPN will bring its World
Cafe to Walnut Street. By Jonathan Valania.
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here for full report in Philadelphia Weekly
September 2002
Thu, Sep. 19, 2002
District to begin intense scrutiny of schools
Vallas says officials will recommend improvements The 45 troubled public
schools turned over to private managers this fall are among the 100 schools
that will participate in a new evaluation and support program, Philadelphia
School District CEO Paul Vallas said yesterday. By Mensah M. Dean.
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here for full report in Philadelphia Daily News
Fri, Sep. 13, 2002
Changing Skyline | Thoroughly urban, and with
pizzazz The appearance of American towns is changing fast these days.
Suburbs are starting to look more like cities, and cities are taking on
some of the physical characteristics of suburbs. By Inga Saffron
Inquirer Architecture Critic.
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here for full report in Philadelphia Inquirer
June 2002
Wed, Jun. 26, 2002
University City gets $440,000 to beef up business
It is quiet on 46th Street and Baltimore Avenue this muggy weekday afternoon.
A plastic bag drifts across the cracked sidewalk. Yellowing newspapers
cover the windows of an empty storefront. Sad-looking cars line the street.
By Juliet Chung Inquirer Staff Writer.
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Fri, Jun. 14, 2002
Plans to revive a ruin of a building An important
piece of the city's industrial past will be saved to become apartments.
Arriving at 30th Street Station is one of the great urban experiences
in America. Your heart lifts as you emerge into the station's soaring,
sun-dappled, marble lobby, a perfect portal for entering a big city. By
Inga Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic.
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May 2002
Fri, May. 31, 2002
Changing Skyline | Greenway project will bring
the city closer to its river Smack in the middle of Philadelphia is a
fabulous public amenity that could help stem the city's population loss,
revive old neighborhoods, reverse the course of blight, boost real estate
values, and attract new jobs. It's called the Schuylkill. By Inga
Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic.
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Thu, May. 30, 2002
Some richer, some poorer As newer suburbs soared,
older areas lost ground. By Thomas Ginsberg and Marc Schogol Inquirer
Staff Writers.
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full report in Philadelphia Inquirer
Fri, May. 24, 2002
'90s Enriched South Jersey Income and education
levels were up regionwide, according to new 2000 census results. But in
some poorer parts, the boom years only widened the gap. By Thomas
Ginsberg and Edward Colimore Inquirer Staff Writers
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for full report in Philadelphia Inquirer
Fri, May. 10, 2002
Changing Skyline | Glass tower risks becoming
an ivory one In the three days before he introduced his plan for a new
Philadelphia skyscraper, architect Cesar Pelli covered a lot of ground.
By Inga Saffron Inquirer Architecture Critic
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here for full report
Wed, May. 08, 2002
32-story office tower planned for city Cira Centre
would be constructed next to 30th Street Station starting next year. The
opening is scheduled for late in 2005. By Henry J. Holcomb Inquirer
Staff Writer
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here for full report
Mon, May. 06, 2002
He's leaving Penn with higher hopes Improving
the neighborhood put John A. Fry on the map. In 1995, the University of
Pennsylvania was in trouble. Crime and decay in the neighborhood were
scaring away many bright students whom a top university must attract.
By Henry J. Holcomb Inquirer Staff Writer
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April 2002
Tue, Apr. 23, 2002
Penn signs deal for movie theater The 6-screen
spot is set to open in November. A plan involving Robert Redford had fallen
through. The University of Pennsylvania has resurrected plans for a six-screen
movie theater at 40th and Market Streets that had the backing of Robert
Redford until his financial partner filed for bankruptcy protection in
2000.By Bob Fernandez and Carrie Rickey Inquirer Staff Writer
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here for full report
2001
NEWS ARCHIVE
October 13, 2001
In Overbrook Park, a quiet change Cecilia Gallagher
of Overbrook Park lived on a block composed of Jews, Italians, and a few
other Irish residents in 1990. Almost all of the neighborhood was white.
By Murray Dubin Inquirer Staff Writer.
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August 02, 2001
A keystroke from West Philadelphia A new website
designed at Penn provides regional data that creators hope will be useful
to researchers. By Richard Mo
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
July 17, 2001
InfoResources Providing The Numbers On West And
Southwest Philadelphia Behind every neighborhood is a wealth of stored
knowledge. Accessing that information is the key to determining troubled
areas and producing the solutions to fix them. By Russell C. Campbell
III
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here for full report in Penn News
December 05, 2000
New McDonald’s incites rally Protesters
rallied against the new McDonald’s in defiance of police orders.
By Peter Ruscitti
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
November 14, 2001
In residents’ fight against McDonald’s,
fast food wins Neighbors have spent two years protesting a McDonald’s
on Market Street, but construction will resume in March. By Gregory
Richards
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here for full report in The Daily Pennsylvanian
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