Topic: Market East
What Market East Needs
The Economy League’s executive director responds to Philly Mag’s roundtable about the struggling corridor with an idea to boost the neighborhood’s economic potential
By Jeff Hornstein
The Atlanta Idea Philly Should Steal
What Market East could learn about enlightened development from ATL’s burgeoning South Downtown
By Diana Lind
Market East Needs More … Everybody
More residents, more workers, more tourists, according to a local housing advocate
By Jon Geeting
Think Before Demolishing Market Street
The Mayor’s Market East Advisory Committee starts meeting today. A longtime urban planner urges them to make a plan before tearing down our history
By Michael Greenle
Market East is Reason for Optimism
Why the President and CEO of Center City District has high hopes for the long moribund corridor
By Prema Katari Gupta
The Citizen Recommends … the Fashion District?
The East Market Street mall can’t be that bad. Right?
By Malcolm Burnley
Krasner, Kensington, Sixers, Trump …
… and other concerns that will shape Philly politics in 2025, from a Drexel University politics professor
By Richardson Dilworth
Love Thy Neighbor? Not Thy Sixers.
A guest commentary from a prominent Philadelphia Black pastor on why he and some other faith leaders oppose the plan to put an arena in Market East
By Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler
Philadelphia is Open for Business
Guest Commentary from the head of the Building Industry Association on why he applauds City Council for approving the new Sixers arena
By Mo Rushdy
What Does Great City Planning Look Like?
It’s a process that puts the city and citizens first — unlike, according to urban planner Harris Steinberg of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, what happened with 76 Place, the proposed Sixers arena.
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy