The potential settlement agreement marks the end of a more than five-year saga, during which township officials, residents, and a development team disagreed on what should happen to the controversial psychiatric site.
Philadelphia has been slow to add new condo units since the 2000s housing boom. That's bad news for first-time and low- to middle-income buyers, who often turn to condos to enter the housing market.
At a Wednesday press conference, lawyers said a Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency policy that requires homeowners to first pay off any liens before they can modify their mortgage jeopardizes residents' chances of saving their homes from sheriff's sale.
The 20,000-square-foot lot had been vacant and blighted when Frank Galdo decided to clean it up in 1989. When the city asked for it decades later, he said it wasn't the city's to take.
Philadelphia artist Ann Northrup is using high-resolution photography to recreate her "One World" mural. The artist community hopes it can be a road map for public art preservation.
The building at 1601-1603 Lombard St. is considered to a “contributing” part of a local historic district thanks to its ties to an African-American beauty-school chain.
Experts say Philly’s housing growth is now a crucial part of the local economy, which raises an important question: If a recession were to come, would it go away?
