Topic: Development For Good

How to Solve a Housing Crisis
The latest installment of our Development … for Good series featured a conversation with Mayor Cherelle Parker’s housing czar Angela Brooks and national housing expert Bruce Katz
By Malcolm Burnley
How to Build a 15-Minute Neighborhood
In the latest in our Development … for Good series, The Citizen hosted a public and a private developer sharing insights on how to create mixed-income neighborhoods with staying power
By Malcolm Burnley
How to Build a 15-Minute City
Join developer Charles Lomax and PHA director Kelvin Jeremiah for The Citizen’s next Development … for Good event on May 20
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Sensory-Friendly Hospital Building for the Future
Jefferson Health’s shiny new Honickman Center shows neurodiverse design can be both budget-friendly and beneficial to everyone
By Natalie Pompilio
Constructing Opportunity
Entrepreneur Blane Stoddart runs The Economy League’s networking program connecting Philadelphia anchor institutions like Penn and PECO with local, Black and Brown-owned construction firms
By Courtney DuChene
The Opposite of Gentrification?
The Citizen’s latest Development…for Good event featured Jumpstart Germantown’s Ken Weinstein and Jordan Parisse-Ferrarini, sharing what they know about growing developers and building wealth in their community
By Courtney DuChene
Neighborhood Renewal By Residents, For Residents
Jumpstart Germantown has helped more than 3,000 Philadelphians become developers of affordably-priced housing. Could this local model work for the entire country’s housing crisis?
By Courtney DuChene
Ray Philly
From the outside, this brand-new Olde Kensington development looks like the rest of the shiny luxury options. Inside, however, it’s all about the arts and community.
By Courtney DuChene
“Diverse Thought Yields Better Results”
AR Spruce, led by Maleda Berhane, demonstrates how real estate development can — and should — incorporate more people from more backgrounds to remake our city
By Katie Gilbert
Women Build It
Why should women work construction? How does design by women differ from design by men? During the most recent Development … for Good event, we got answers from women changing Philadelphia’s built environment
By Lauren McCutcheon