Jake Blumgart
Urbanism and Built Environment Reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Covering commercial real estate for the @PhillyInquirer. Formerly of @Governing, @NewStatesman, @WHYY and @PlanPhilly.
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3 days ago |
inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart
When the storied Cobbs Creek Golf Course reopens, it will have food and beverage service provided by the Fitler Club and Strother Enterprises, a family-owned catering business. The partners will operate a full service restaurant and bar called the Little Horse Tavern, named for the moniker of Charlie Sifford, the Black golfer who led the integration of the PGA tournament in the 1960s.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart
Lindsey Scannapieco’s Bok Building has become a South Philadelphia icon. The monumental former public school, shutteredin 2013, now hums with activity. It’s filled with 225 tenants — artists, nonprofits, small businesses and cultural institutions — with 500 more on the waiting list. Its retail options include a James Beard-semifinalist bakery, a bike shop, and a bar with Center City skyline vistas.
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1 week ago |
inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart
Gaudenzia is a Philadelphia institution that dates to 1968, when it was founded in the midst of a previous opioid epidemic. Now almost 60 years later, it has grown into one of the largest nonprofit substance-use treatment providers in the Northeastern United States. That history is complicating an effort to build 40 affordable apartments in West Philadelphia’s Cathedral Park neighborhood. Gaudenzia says the apartments, dubbed Cathedral Park Homes, wouldn’t be earmarked for people in recovery.
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Fallon Roth |Jake Blumgart
Philadelphia’s subsidized SEPTA fare program, which created the first major dustup of the budget season, may continue to be a point of contention for transit advocates in the coming year. Mayor Cherelle L. Parker originally proposed in March eliminating Zero Fare, a two-year roughly $60 million pilot program that provides SEPTA access for about 25,000 Philadelphians living in poverty.
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2 weeks ago |
inquirer.com | Jake Blumgart
The new owner of the Wanamaker Building says that Philadelphia today is akin to New York City in the 1990s, but with better building codes. As TF Cornerstone embarks on the redevelopment of the historic department store — with newly announced local partner Alterra Property Group — they plan 600 loft-style apartments akin to units they created in Manhattan’s former industrial neighborhoods 40 years ago.
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