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At around 11:30 a.m., students reported that Philadelphia Police blocked off the Quad. The Philadelphia Police also temporarily shut down the 3600 block of Spruce street.
01/15/19 4:39am
Giant Heirloom Market, a new gourmet grocery brand, is set to open on 34th and Chestnut streets near Domus Apartments.
12/13/18 8:26pm
Harvest closed indefinitely after a fire in January 2017 to repair damage to the building, but four months later officials announced it would not reopen.
12/02/18 11:33pm
Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Miami preceded Philadelphia on the list, with Chicago and Orlando following.
11/19/18 10:53pm
The bond will be used to support infrastructure improvements throughout Philadelphia, including street repavement, maintenance of the Schuylkill River, and various improvements to Penn’s Landing.
11/19/18 2:03am
The heirlooms were delivered to the Museum on Monday and will be displayed as part of the museum’s “Year of Hamilton" until March 2019.
11/18/18 9:56pm
Peterkin Bell's profile from the Annenberg website has been deleted. The course listing for her course Urban Communications is no longer on PennInTouch.
11/18/18 8:42pm
Professors from Penn and other local institutions help devise experiments to solve Philadelphia-specific problems such as littering and voting turnout.
11/18/18 8:37pm
Flooding is not the only environmental issue threatening Eastwick. Some Penn faculty and students are examining the health implications of nearby landfills and energy plants.
11/15/18 1:00pm
The conversation was part of a day-long Perry World House event, where officials from cities across the nation gathered to discuss changing local and national immigration policies.
11/14/18 3:17am
Over a hundred Penn students have signed a petition that argues that nearby Starbucks stores are already overburdened.
11/13/18 7:23pm
Peterkin Bell became an instructor at Penn in Jan. 2017, and is currently slated to teach an urban communication course next spring.
11/08/18 3:22am
There are approximately 150 guides currently in the Kite and Key Society, each of whom are expected to lead one campus tour a week.
11/07/18 2:20am
Rep. Dwight Evans (D-Pa.) was re-elected to the House, still serving as the representative for Penn's campus.
10/31/18 3:57am
Josh Evans' interest in real estate investment stemmed from a few Penn classes he took in urban development.
10/30/18 2:25am
PILOTs, or Payments in Lieu of Taxes, are voluntary contributions that nonprofits make to local governments.
10/30/18 12:09am
Penn President Amy Gutmann condemned the recent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and paid homage to Penn graduate Jerry Rabinowitz, who was among those killed in the attack.
10/29/18 3:05am
The eight-hour event was the first of its kind on Penn’s campus and took more than a year of planning on the part of members of the University’s extended healthcare community.
10/29/18 1:27am
Following a meeting between the city and seven Philadelphia universities, the Schuylkill Navy has made progress towards funding the much needed Schuylkill dredge.
10/25/18 9:49pm
The jump in Philadelphia rentership was the third greatest among the ten most populated cities in the nation.
