aims to heal a decades-old divide caused by the Vine Street Expressway. Since the 1960s, this 13-lane highway has split Philadelphia’s Chinatown, causing safety concerns and environmental ...
In his 2022 book, “Stop the Road”, author E. Evans Paull quotes Esther Redd, then representing her Rosemont neighborhood at a ...
Organizers expect to complete the next step in turning the Reading Railroad Viaduct into a park in a few months, but there’s a long way to go.
Chinatown routinely confronts the prospect of huge, imposing developments — a prison, a casino, a Phillies baseball stadium — ...
Khan added that throughout the years, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been treated as collateral damage for several major development projects, including the Vine Street Expressway, a highway that ...
Unlike other neighborhoods in Philly, Chinatown has little space to expand. Projects like the Vine Street Expressway, the PA Convention Center, Gallery (now Fashion District) mall and the Roundhouse ...
The over-150-year-old neighborhood also had unsuccessful fights against the construction of the Vine Street Expressway — soon to get a cap park as a form of mitigation — and the Pennsylvania ...
Vine Street in Harrisonburg is closed to traffic between Old Furnace Road and Country Club Road, officials said.