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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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