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Philly’s big new historic district | Real Estate Newsletter

Preservationists tried for years to get Philly to create a historic district in the Washington Square West neighborhood. Some property owners opposed restrictions that come with designation.

A supporter holds a sign in protest during a “no Sixers arena rally” outside Philadelphia City Hall just before Mayor Cherelle L. Parker announced her support of an arena at 10th and Market Streets.

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Mayor Parker endorses a downtown Sixers arena as Chinatown activists rally outside City Hall

Marilyn Storck poses with the window boxes in her front garden, which won first place in the small garden category of the Fairmount Civic Association’s 2024 Flowering Fronts of Fairmount Competition.

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In Fairmount’s small front spaces, carefully tended container gardens make a colorful neighborhood

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More bikes and pedestrians, fewer cars: A $100 million rethink of Philly’s historical district

An overhead rendering of the proposed Rockefeller Group warehouse, next to Holmesburg Prison on the right.

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Philly’s big new historic district | Real Estate Newsletter

Mayor Parker endorses a downtown Sixers arena as Chinatown activists rally outside City Hall

In Fairmount’s small front spaces, carefully tended container gardens make a colorful neighborhood

More bikes and pedestrians, fewer cars: A $100 million rethink of Philly’s historical district

Huge new warehouse is planned in Holmesburg next to the former prison