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TerraPower Chooses Philly for $450M Medical Isotope Hub

A nuclear science company founded by Bill Gates has chosen South Philadelphia for a new manufacturing facility dedicated to producing radioactive medical isotopes used in cancer treatment. TerraPower Isotopes...

Little Walter’s Turns Neighbor’s Request Into Gluten-Free Pierogi Night

Little Walter’s, a modern Polish restaurant in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, now hosts a monthly gluten-free dinner service after a special event created for one neighbor with celiac disease drew...

FNA splits vote on mixed-use development on Frankford Ave.

A design sketch for a potential housing and commercial development at 1850–62 Frankford Ave. PHOTO COURTESY OF HARMAN DEUTSCH ARCHITECTUREGetting zoning approval for a...

Port Richmond rallies for senior living project

The boarded-up front of vacant Nativity B.V.M. School, at Belgrade and East Madison streets. PHOTO COURTESY OF “PORT RICHMOND (PAST AND PRESENT) FOR THE...

The Actual Value Initiative: What are you worth?

During the next several months, Philadelphia City Council members will be figuring out how much the city’s going to charge you to live here....

Kensington property owner: ‘you’re taking away my future’

Meletios Anthanasiadis (left), has lost seven properties in East Kensington via eminent domain; Arab American Community Development Corporation’s Marwan Kreidie (right), says a housing...

Vacant lots could become housing

Two large vacant lots on Front Street near Tiptop Playground were put up on the market by the city last month, and over 80...

The River Wards’ business boom

Fishtown neighbors enjoyed the grand opening of Pizza Brain, a pizza shop and museum, just one of the businesses that opened in the River...
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