Grammy-winning singer John Legend and The Fire music venue will be honored with a mural outside of the woman-owned bar on Thursday, May 25. Legend, who was born in Ohio, performed there early in his career while attending the University of Pennsylvania. The venue, which opened in 1999, has also hosted musical acts like Amos Lee, Santigold, Maroon 5, Dr. Dog, Jason Mraz and Damien Rice.
The organizers of 2nd Street Festival announce the first-ever spring edition of the new Northern Liberties Night Market Series. This inaugural series of outdoor food festivals is rolling into the single fastest growing neighborhood in Philadelphia on Thursday, May 26th, from 5:00pm to 10:00pm, on N. 2nd Street between Fairmount and Poplar streets.
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Two residential towers have been proposed in the southern part of Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. The first is a 14-story building with 355 units at 200 Spring Garden St., while the second is a 23-story building several blocks south at 2nd and Willow Streets. The project is led by National Real Estate Development and Kushner Real Estate Group.
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Homes across from Fairmount Park at 33rd and Clifford streets included in a new Strawberry Mansion Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
These days, everyone wants to talk to Tonetta Graham about overlays a zoning tool that can be used to shape development in a specific area.
What would normally pass for municipal minutiae is a hot topic because Graham’s Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation and a coalition of other neighborhood groups recently won City Council approval for a special overlay district that aims to slow gentrification by restricting the height and density of new construction. Graham and her colleagues proposed the “Strawberry Mansion Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District” late last year after watching blocks of brick rowhouses begin to change with construction that they felt clashed with the historic fabric of the community. Roof decks are banned in the new district, along wit