Kingsessing Recreation Center full of life during a community event in May 2022 By Kimmy Cook Last month, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) leadership announced a new program called “Making Space: Reimagining Recreation.” The program’s stated goal is to support the next generation of entrepreneurs by offering them physical space and up to $75,000 in seed money to start their businesses. In exchange, these businesses are required to provide programming

For decades, the City of Philadelphia has repeatedly cut taxes for corporations, real estate developers, and the rich. As a result, vital public services are starved of resources. Libraries are closed on weekends, trash pick-up schedules are delayed, sidewalks and streets are crumbling and full of potholes, many of our schools and rec centers have fallen into disrepair, and programs that could improve community safety, like mobile crisis teams, are

  The ultra-rich profit from the pandemic while our communities continue to suffer from disinvestment. We must recognize that normal was never good enough and explore progressive revenue solutions that provide a more equitable path forward than the one we are on.     Pandemic Profiteers   In our city and around the country, bankers, landlords, politicians and other key figures hold the most power in defining what “growth” means. Historically,

Philadelphia City Hall, looking towards a bright future? With the mask mandate coming back and another wave of Covid possible, the possibility of moving on from the pandemic is dimmer than it seemed a few weeks ago. Still, we all would like a future of never hearing about variants again – but what does that really mean to move into a post-pandemic future? The Pew Charitable Trusts’s Philadelphia Research and