Monthly Archives: July 2009

Organic no-op

By admin | July 17, 2009

From CP:
In early 2007, the East Park Revitalization Alliance (EPRA), a community nonprofit in Strawberry Mansion, decided to tackle the nutrition vacuum in the neighborhood, one of Philly’s poorest. A produce stand comes to an adjacent neighborhood, but only once a week, and only during the growing season. To really get any food besides the [...]

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Fancy in Francisville

By admin | July 1, 2009

The Francisville section of lower North Philly has remained largely untouched by the sort of development that tends to usher in gentrification. But at a neighborhood meeting on Friday, 95 percent of attendees voted to allow chic developer Onion Flats to build a super-sustainable five-story residential building at the long-overgrown corner of 19th and Wylie [...]

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