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Inga Saffron

Rather than demolishing its dilapidated apartment towers at 44th and Market Strees, the Philadelphia Housing Authority has partnered with a private developer who will repair the high-rises and build new apartments and rowhouses. The first phase, which will break ground in the spring, will link the site with the city street grid and include a new entrance plaza near the 46th Street El stop.

PHA is trying a new approach to high-rise public housing. This time it just might work.

The dense, new development proposed for Westpark at 44th and Market could create an affordable, 15-minute neighborhood.

Inga Saffron | Columnist, For The Inquirer

At a time when so many glass buildings are afflicted by a deadening flatness, the architects at Ennead have energized Jefferson Health's new Honickman building at 11th and Chestnut by wrapping it in a rippled glass screen.

Is Jefferson’s dazzling new outpatient building enough to heal East Chestnut Street?

Inga Saffron, For The Inquirer

This open land along I-76 was once the heart of the East Coast’s biggest oil refinery, a hellscape of flaming steel stacks, snaking pipelines and bulbous storage tanks. Now, virtually every piece of that sprawling industrial complex has been disassembled and carted away, leaving a two-mile swathe of scrubland along the Schuylkill River.

South Philly’s former refinery site is the city’s next big job center. Can it avoid the Navy Yard’s mistakes?

Inga Saffron | Columnist

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Philly’s Greyhound bus ‘station’ is a humanitarian disaster and a municipal disgrace

Inga Saffron | Columnist

The platforms at Jefferson Station in the Fashion District shopping mall.

Off track? A Sixers arena at 11th and Market would compromise Jefferson Station | Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron | Columnist, For The Inquirer

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