Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?

The @phillyinquirer ‘s first architecture quiz, courtesy of real estate editor @ericapalan www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Follow-up: a stirring, thoughtful review from the incomparable @ingasaffron.bsky.social. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

I honestly don’t have enough luminous, magical spirit caves in my life.

Has ‘Go Birds’ fully replaced ‘Have a blessed day’ as the top Philly goodbye phrase?

Not only is Calder Gardens like nothing else on the Parkway - it’s like nothing else anywhere. This is a great building, as my review explains. To celebrate, a gift link: share.inquirer.com/1K33B0

Wasn't it just a few months ago that the Sixers and the arena bros were telling us that no one takes the subway to the Philly Sports Complex? 🤔 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

As storms become more intense, the flooding in Philly’s low-lying areas is forcing property owners to make difficult choices, and even abandon their buildings. My column looks at how a church was able to reuse a historic mill by balancing adaptation & preservation. www.inquirer.com/opinion/hist...

Putting a huge garage on a major transit corridor, within an easy walk of 30th Street Station’s regional rail, is another dagger in the heart of @SEPTA www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

This is a really smart take on the Septa funding debacle. Where indeed is Mayor Parker right now? At the same time, the Joe Pittman video is a must-watch for everyone who wants to hate on rural PA. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-reveal...

This story quotes the Robin Hood Foundation as saying 25% of NYers live below the povert line. If that’s true, then we have to stop saying Philly is the poorest big city in the US, with a rate of 20.3%. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/n...

The imprisonment of this public art work is the latest example of how businesses on Philly’s Market Street will do anything to keep people away. When is that task force Mayor Parker promised going to start work on this problem? www.inquirer.com/columnists/m...

Having lived in a Philadelphia historic district for 25 years and renovated my modest little rowhouse, I have to say the answer to this headline is, ‘no’. We all benefit when a house can been used and reused for 200 years. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Trump is systematically attempting to erase the history of American slavery from our historic sites - just in time for the country’s 250th anniversary. Great reporting from @phillyinquirer www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Every word in this story will make your head explode. The death of a teenage boy riding a scooter is horrific. But it is not a ‘privilege’ to travel by scooter or bike. Make the streets safe. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

This is more like it. But Philly’s Market East still needs a city and community-led plan. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Half a happy ending, but still painful to lose another Furness building. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Thank you! According to researchers at Yale & Penn, the Medicaid cuts can result in 51,000 preventable deaths every year. It's heinous. Please tell friends to call, write, FB message, Tweet, etc our representatives . Americans are frightened & many will lose loved ones. We have to try.

Where can I donate my tax cut to people who are being kicked off Medicaid?

Where can I donate my tax cut to people who are being kicked off Medicaid?

Where can I donate my tax cut to people who are being kicked off Medicaid?

Where can I donate my tax cut to people who are being kicked off Medicaid?

What can we learn from the fact that the two most read stories on inquirer.com last week were about Philadelphia school students forced to wear diapers because of limited bathroom breaks and Jason Kelce rocking a speedo to benefit autism research?

What can we learn from the fact that the two most read stories on inquirer.com last week were about Philadelphia school students forced to wear diapers because of limited bathroom breaks and Jason Kelce rocking a speedo to benefit autism research?

When preserving an old Philly bank and building 114 apartments isn’t just about “highest and best use.” If there is left development, this might be it. www.inquirer.com/columnists/k...

Just like any slumlord, Philly’s government treats its buildings like assets that can br disposed of and monetized. Great story from @maxmmarin on the sorry state of former city history museum designed by John Haviland in 1824. www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Where’s the data? You can’t redevelop vacant property if you don’t know where it is. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Happy Second Anniversary of no full service bus station in Philadelphia www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Yes! If the Democrats hope to fight back effectively, they need to start showing video narratives from people who have lost their loved ones, their jobs, their businesses and their dreams because of Trump’s cruel and irrational policies. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

This is ‘70s level slumlord shit. And what makes it especially bizarre is that this is a thrivjng neighborhood. www.inquirer.com/news/admiral...

How can you decry gentrification and then reject a thoughtful plan for a modest group of affordable houses? www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Yes, the feud is highly entertaining, but we know it’s going to end with even deeper cuts to crucial government services, a massive deficit and tax cuts for billionaires.

I really admire this ambitious plan from @tfcornerstone to reuse the Wanamaker building. But I suspect they’re going need to core out those big floor plates to bring light into the units & that’s a challenge. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

“Stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions,” writes @BCAppelbaum . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron published a powerful column criticizing the project’s design and disregard for neighborhood impact.

Two side-by-side pieces on inquirer.com demonstrate how Philly is getting less transit friendly: My column on the CHOP garage & this great @tomfitzgerald & Jason Lo piece on how the @SEPTA service cuts would dramatically increase commute times. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

Sure seems like there’s enough parking garages in this radius already, would love to see them incentivized to maximize leasing existing spaces rather than new construction

The dramatic new Schuylkill Banks bridge & trail promises to improve access for Philly’s isolated Grays Ferry neighborhood. So what’s the first big project that gets built? A giant garage. My column explains how that undercuts a legacy of planning. www.inquirer.com/columnists/c...

This excellent piece by @tomfitzgerald and @Inqkriordan is a reminder of how narrowly Philly escaped the destruction of 1960s highway mania. And also a reminder of how PennDot hasn’t fully learned the lessons of that era. www.inquirer.com/transportati...

The Whales have returned to the Schuylkill riverfront. www.instagram.com/p/DJ1-q6rpNg...

The Trump Administration is basically defunding the UPenn lab that made the Covid vaccine possible and won the Nobel Prize for its research. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

There’s a reason the Gilded Age Bellevue is known as ‘Philadelphia’s Hotel’. The hotel’s ups-and-downs mirror the city’s own. My column looks at its latest reinvention and what it means for the city in these challenging times. www.inquirer.com/columnists/p...

The same shit, different assholes

Removing flexposts on the South Street Bridge bike lane apparently isn't bad enough for CHOP, now they want to outsource their traffic problems to environmentally ravaged Grays Ferry! This must be stopped

This week I went into three local stores to buy small household items - a soap dish, phone adapter, moisturizer - and in each case, they had to ship to me. It’s harder and harder to buy local.

We are now celebrating a decade of the historic Germantown Y not being developed because of Cindy Bass’ use of councilmanic prerogative. Surely there has to be an equitable solution that saves this piece of Philadelphia heritage & creates much needed housing. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Go Harvard!

I thought Howard Lutnick promised Americans they’d get to turn the little screws in the iPhone? They literally have no plan.

What a contrast between Trump’s defunding of science and medical research and China’s supercharging of industrial investment. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/b...

Well at least we won’t have to wreck any more farmland by building fulfillment centers.