There are 7 miles of blighted waterfront property just east of our beloved center city Philadelphia. On Thursday, hundreds of citizens and advocates joined together at the Independence Seaport Museum on Penn’s Landing to listen to speakers on the redevelopment of this property including representatives from Penn Praxis, the Next Great City, the Central [...]

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Did you know that Philadelphia’s population peaked in the 1950’s at 2 million people? Did you know that since then we have dropped to about 1 ½ million? That’s a loss of 500,000 people when the nation’s population since then [...]

NUTTER BUTTER AUDIO BONUS! Click to listen to the first 30 Minutes of last nights presentation which kicks off with RBM, (the PhillySkyline guy) introducing the panel…
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From Re/Max City Space Eco-Broker Rachel Lipton…

Last night I attended what I can only describe as a truly inspiring event. Andy Altman, who is the newest addition [...]

Remax City Space is proud to be marketing some of Philly’s most exciting eco friendly residential new construction. If you’re not in the market to buy a new eco-friendly Phila home, then riding your bike to work could be an effective (and much cheaper) way to reduce your carbon footprint.

Bike Pilferer’s Paradise

But [...]

Michael Nutter has named Philadelphia’s first Director of Sustainability and he didn’t have to go far to find him. You might recognize Mark Alan Hughes’s name from his column in the Daily news or his face from UPENN’s campus or any of the plethora of impressive positions he has held in the region and [...]

Late, Wednesday evening, Eric DeShawn Floyd was brought in for the murder of Philadelphia Police Sgt Stephen Liczbinski. He and his girlfriend had been hiding out at a boarded up rowhouse in Southwest Philadelphia with no running water and no electricity for the last few days. The whole city breathed a [...]

We have all heard that Mayor Michael Nutter wants Philadelphia to emerge in coming years as The Green City in America. If you are not on the band wagon yet, it’s time to jump aboard! One of the great aspects of this goal is that he actually has a plan, and a realistic one [...]

Stephen Colbert has proven himself to be extremely talented when it comes to making politicians look bad. The more dim-witted ones don’t even see it coming, but guess what, Philadelphians? He’s not messing with our Mayor! 

Colbert pressed Nutter on two major recent issues, his backing of Senator Hillary Clinton in the primaries, and his recently [...]

On Saturday, April 5, 2008 Philadelphia put itself on the map for a new kind of notoriety. In the past we have been tagged the ugliest city, the fattest city, the most dangerous city, the dirtiest city, but now we can boast that we are the home of the largest single-day, citywide cleanup in [...]