Jake Blumgart

5 days ago | inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart

As terminally bankrupt Rite Aid shutters hundreds of stores across the country, what will happen to all those properties? The fate of one soon-to-be former Rite Aid in Philadelphia is clear. The store at 801 S. Ninth St., above the Italian Market, will be demolished and replaced with condos and townhouses. There will be no retail space. “This is not a climate to support any meaningful commercial,” said Ori Feibush, the Philadelphia-based developer who owns the property.

6 days ago | inquirer.com | Sean Walsh |Jake Blumgart

For months, Philadelphia City Council members who favor a tough-on-crime approach to the addiction crisis in Kensington have faced criticism for supporting a bill that would dramatically restrict where mobile medical providers can operate in the neighborhood. It appears Council did not appreciate the feedback.

6 days ago | inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart |Harold Brubaker

Nearly six years after the bankruptcy and closure of Hahnemann University Hospital in Center City, a New York real estate developer has made a preliminary bid of $16.25 million for a collection of Hahnemann properties, including the two empty patient towers at Broad and Race Streets. Dwight City Group LLC’s bid, disclosed in a Hahnemann bankruptcy filing Wednesday, will set the baseline for an auction proposed for July 16, if the sale plan receives court approval.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart |Sean Walsh

City Council members questioned Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s plans to pay for her new housing initiative, and whether it will benefit the Philadelphians who most need help, during an at-times tense city budget hearing on Wednesday that revealed political fault lines around Parker’s top priority for her second year in office.

1 week ago | inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart

The 1,005-unit parking garage that Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is proposing in Grays Ferry was roundly criticized by city planners, design experts, and local residents Tuesday at the Civic Design Review committee. “It’s just hard to cotton that this extremely wealthy, extremely well-positioned institution has decided that 1,000 cars should go off campus … and contribute to all the negative impacts of traffic to that neighborhood,” said Dan Garofalo, vice chair of the CDR committee.