Judy Weightman

Judy Weightman is a freelance writer who chooses to live in Philadelphia.

The Schuylkill Banks project is part of a 26-mile (42 km) trail extending from Center City Philadelphia northwestward to Valley Forge. The full Schuylkill River Trail will ultimately extend about 130 miles (209 km) from the Appalachian Trail to the Delaware River.
As part of a discussion of ULI’s America in 2015survey, panelists at a ULI Philadelphia event said that green space and community gardens are an increasingly attractive amenities with both baby boomers and millenials looking to move closer to the urban core.
The designer of West Philadelphia’s Cira Centre, architect Cesar Pelli talked about the role of place making in two of his current projects at a recent ULI conference in Philadelphia.
Education and medicine are two of the ‘anchor institutions’ helping to rebuild cities such as Detroit and Camden, New Jersey, said speakers at ULI’s recent Place Making 2013 conference in Philadelphia.
Major changes resulted both directly and indirectly from the University of Pennsylvania’s 2004 purchase of a U.S. Postal Service property adjacent to Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, according to speakers at ULI’s “Place Making 2013: New Drivers, New Partners” conference in June.
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