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WEBJul 18, 2024 · Property taxes are on the rise. The city’s revaluation for Tax Year 2025 is complete, meaning property values and property taxes are on the rise. And although some increases may appear to put a strain on... News Star News - August 26, 2024.
A new water treatment facility is headed Port Richmond’s way
WEBFeb 1, 2021 · The Philadelphia Water Department announced last week that Port Richmond will be home to a new $100 million preliminary treatment building next door to the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant at the corner of Richmond Street and Wheatsheaf Lane. The site will support the existing plant, providing pretreatment to allow for a major increase ...
Former Philadelphia Coke Site set to be rezoned for warehousing ...
WEBNov 26, 2020 · The office of City Councilperson Bobby Henon has announced plans to rezone the site of the former Philadelphia Coke Company plant via ordinance to allow for a new warehousing complex to be built on the northwestern side of the parcel. The site is located at 4501 Richmond St. and is bounded by the Delaware River and Buckius, Orthodox, Richmond ...
Part of the old Frankford Arsenal is being revived by a local ...
WEBFeb 23, 2021 · On the northernmost edge of Bridesburg tucked away at the corner of Tacony and Bridge streets just below I-95 lies the Frankford Arsenal, a campus of buildings formerly used as a design and development space for artillery initially constructed in the early 1800s by the federal government. The campus expanded over the years before it …
Giving Back Globally - Star News
WEBJul 1, 2020 · There were lost lives and families without homes,” she said. Sofia Cavicchia helped build houses in Guatemala in the summers of 2018 and ’19. Sofia made a return trip in June 2019. “Going back, it felt like a second home,” she said. “We recognized the tour guides, and people opened their arms to us.”.
Coming home to make people laugh - Star News
WEBOct 4, 2021 · She’s absolutely hilarious.”. South Philly will always be home for Eleanor Kerrigan, even if she’s tweaked her accent a bit.The stand-up comedienne who has performed on some of the biggest stages across the country simply loves coming home to visit her mother in her childhood home near 18th …
Fishtown veteran Inacker enters controller race - Star News
WEBJan 22, 2023 · Veteran Jack Inacker, a married father of two from Fishtown, announced his candidacy for city controller in the special election’s Democratic primary on May 16. - Advertisement -. Inacker served in the Air Force during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as a nuclear weapons systems specialist responsible for managing and auditing more than $500 ...
Remembering Fire Captain Michael Goodwin - Star News
WEBApr 8, 2013 · The Philadelphia Fire Department and the Kensington community lost “a hero” when Fire Captain Michael Goodwin perished while battling a three-alarm blaze in a South Philly fabric store on Saturday night. According to fire department officials, Goodwin, 53, was on the roof of the burning shop when it collapsed and he became trapped in the ...
Contractor behind collapse of Fishtown home will soon have …
WEBMar 6, 2019 · Philadelphia’s department of Licenses and Inspections has begun the process to revoke the contractor’s license held by Q Construction, the contractor of record said to be responsible for the collapse of 633 and 635 E. Thompson St. in Fishtown early last month. Since the Star’s most recent report on the family’s situation, a city ...
In latest River Wards house collapse, two homes are ‘a total loss’
WEBMar 27, 2019 · The city Department of Licenses and Inspections announced Thursday that both properties at 2624 and 2622 Tulip St. “are a total loss” and will be demolished by a certified contractor appointed by L&I. The announcement comes less than two months after a similar situation occurred at 633 and 635 E. Thompson Street in early February. “Mayor ...