Dateline: 7/02/08 - The Philadelphia Neighborhood Alliance (PNA) announced today that it "fully" supports the 10 Action Steps recommended in the PennPraxis-led Vision Plan for the Central Delaware waterfront [more...]
Rendering of 40th St. from the Market St. Design Project, provided by the Science Center.
By Nicole Contosta | UC Review Staff | 02.JUL.08
Representatives from the Science Center, the University City District (UCD) and the City of Philadelphia, unveiled updates for the Market Street Design Project last Wednesday, June 25th.
The design project, which will include a median on Market from the University of Pennsylvania’s Science Center at 34th St. up through the business district at 41st and Market, is the result of collaboration between the UCD, the Partnership CDC, Penn Praxis, the Science Center and the Friends of 40th St.
Why? It will improve the Market St. corridor in University City. [more...]
By Sheryl P. Simons | Community Contributor | 02.JUL.08
Welcomed news greeted attendees of the monthly Friends of 40th Street meeting held at the 3901 Market Street community center on June 27th. Updates on improvements to Saunders Park, which is adjacent to Penn/Presbyterian Hospital, were provided by Gary Ginsberg, Director of Facilities for the hospital and Tammy Leigh DeMent, Project Manager for the PA Horticultural Society.
The project has been divided into two stages with funding for short-term goals, in the amount of $25,000, being provided by a grant from Bank of America. According to DeMent, "plantings, seedlings, trash cans, doggie bags, and benches" are being added this summer while removal of some of the hazardous trees along 39th Street has taken place.
Mayor Nutter speaking last week at Independence Seaport Museum.
UC Review | 02.JUL.08
Text of address by Mayor Nutter - June 26th, 2008
Last January, when I was sworn in as mayor, I set out an ambitious agenda for our city. But it wasn’t a work list for me or even for City Council and me.
When I said it was time for change, a time to make reform real and the beginning of a great American city’s renaissance, I used that tiny but powerful pronoun, "WE."
In the almost six months since then, my vocabulary has not changed.
City government faces enormous challenges and the only way to surmount them is if WE work together every step of the way.
In the policy world, we like to call that "CIVIC ENGAGEMENT." [more...]
