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Report: Jobs, education increase on North Broad

View Full Article: https://temple-news.com/report-jobs-education-increase-on-north-broad/ In 2017, there was an increase in jobs, educational attainment and population along North Broad Street between City Hall and Germantown Avenue, according to a report by the community revitalization group North Broad Renaissance. North Broad Renaissance is a nonprofit community organization that incentivizes development along the North Broad corridor, coordinating [...]

2018-04-04T16:33:17-04:00April 4th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Report: Jobs, education increase on North Broad

Broad Street Rising

https://news.temple.edu/sites/news/files/Publications/Temple-Magazine/2018/tmagwin18_pdf.pdf

2018-04-04T16:32:14-04:00April 4th, 2018|News|Comments Off on Broad Street Rising

Going beyond hip with a vision for inclusive prosperity on North Broad

View Full Article: http://planphilly.com/articles/2018/02/28/going-beyond-hip-with-a-vision-for-inclusive-prosperity-on-north-broad “This is a moment to forge an inclusive path to prosperity.” No, Drexel University President John Fry was not talking about North Broad when he voiced this idea at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce’s recent mayoral luncheon, but we shared his sentiments just the same. Fry brought up inclusive prosperity [...]

2018-04-04T16:30:36-04:00April 4th, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Going beyond hip with a vision for inclusive prosperity on North Broad

What a bus ride up North Broad Street showed about its potential future

For its last stakeholder meeting of the fiscal year, North Broad Renaissance (NBR) wanted to do something a bit more engaging than a PowerPoint presentation on the progress being made with its five-year plan to revitalize North Broad Street’s commercial corridor. So instead, Shalimar Thomas, executive director of the city-funded nonprofit acting as a Special Service District, rented a bus [...]

2017-11-12T10:30:51-05:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on What a bus ride up North Broad Street showed about its potential future

NBR finishes a Summer of youth development

On August 25, the North Broad Renaissance Fellows finished the NBR Fellowship Program, which aimed to combine a student’s community engagement with their academic and career goals. NBR Fellows were committed to working in a sustained, intentional, and intensive way that works to address issues in one of our four focus areas: Clean and Safe [...]

2017-09-12T16:28:14-04:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on NBR finishes a Summer of youth development

For Shalimar Thomas, economic development and community betterment for North Broad are one in the same

Shalimar Thomas credits a lot of where she is now to the people who would constantly encourage her when she was growing up in North Philly. As a teenage mom who had her first and second sons at the ages of 15 and 16 and dropped out of high school, Thomas felt how many others [...]

2017-09-12T16:26:21-04:00September 12th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on For Shalimar Thomas, economic development and community betterment for North Broad are one in the same

Parkway Announces Another Project to Drive Revitalization on North Broad

PHILADELPHIA, PA (PRWEB) JANUARY 27, 2017 Parkway Corporation, a Philadelphia-based real estate developer, investor, and best-in-class parking operator, is pleased to announce a new development at 510 North Broad Street. This investment is reflective of Parkway’s enduring commitment to Philadelphia and to helping drive the revitalization of the city’s emerging sub-markets. “We are thrilled to [...]

2017-11-12T10:30:51-05:00April 1st, 2017|News|Comments Off on Parkway Announces Another Project to Drive Revitalization on North Broad

Wanted: Contractor to maintain lights on North Broad St.

A contractor is needed to maintain the North Broad Streetscape Project light poles along North Broad Street. North Broad Renaissance, a community development organization, extended the request for proposals for a contractor to order and install LED lights for the 55-foot-tall poles, maintain the upkeep of the art installation and provide emergency repairs. The first [...]

2017-11-12T10:30:51-05:00January 26th, 2017|News|Comments Off on Wanted: Contractor to maintain lights on North Broad St.

How a North Broad Street community is trying to fix the $14 million pole problem

You can’t miss North Broad’s poles, and that’s part of the problem. The 41 of them standing in the street’s medians look like really tall basketball goals — minus the hoops — during the day. At night, when they’re supposed to shine, they either don’t, or they light up in shades so different from one another [...]

2017-04-01T21:25:02-04:00January 26th, 2017|News|Comments Off on How a North Broad Street community is trying to fix the $14 million pole problem

The North Broad Poles in search of new contractor

The “North Poles” on North Broad Street are still in search of a contractor to maintain them, more than a year after the city installed the 42 light masts in the center of the corridor. The non-profit community development group North Broad Renaissance has extended an RFP (request for proposals) for a contractor who can [...]

2017-11-12T10:30:51-05:00January 26th, 2017|News|Comments Off on The North Broad Poles in search of new contractor

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