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The decision comes days after a group of residents filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the park renovation.

The ratcheting up of anxiety suggests that even if Safehouse can reach a deal with the Justice Department more battles loom in the campaign for widespread public support.

Philadelphia’s first female Council President Anna Verna was a longtime South Philly resident and lived near the site of the new playground park.

This Packer Park new construction townhouse for sale has been built to last by a perfectionist who sweats the details.

Residents rally outside the Chickie’s and Pete’s restaurant on Packer Avenue in response to an application to place a sports book at the popular venue. Photos/Mark Zimmaro A large crowd of residents gathered in the Chickie’s & Pete’s parking lot on April 5 to speak out against a proposal that would bring a Parx Casino sports book inside the popular restaurant. More than 100 residents — mostly from the Packer Park neighborhood — held signs and spoke in strong opposition of having gam...

Clinic vaccinates more than 4,000 people over 24 hours | Morning Newsletter Lauren Aguirre, The Philadelphia Inquirer © YONG KIM/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Barbara Capozzi (center), president of the Packer Park Civic Association, talks to members at the Packer Park Shopping Center parking lot near Chickies & Petes in South Philadelphia on Monday. Thousands of Philadelphians waited through the night, some for 10 hours or longer, to be vaccinated by the Black Doctors COVID-1...