Sep. 9--The Durst Organization of New York has been selected to redevelop Penn's Landing, ending efforts by the 76ers to build themselves a new basketball arena there. Under a $2.2 billion plan approved Wednesday by the key waterfront board, the family-run development group would put up 12 new towers of homes, shops, and offices on either side of the four-acre park being planned over ... Read More

Sep. 2--Two abandoned mine land reclamation projects in Cambria County are set to receive funding through Pennsylvania's AML Program, state Department of Environmental Protection officials announced Wednesday. The first of those projects is the removal and reclamation of an 11-acre coal refuse pile along the Ghost Town Trail near Vintondale, which is expected to improve water quality in a ... Read More

Aug. 18--Two projects, including a fulfillment center creating an estimated 2,000 jobs, can move forward after receiving variances from the Antrim Township Zoning Hearing Board Thursday evening. Plans for both a fulfillment center for a company that has not yet been identified publicly, and U.S. Cold Storage, which would bring about 80 jobs, exceed the township's height limit of 50 feet in an ... Read More

Aug. 11--Drilling fluid used in Sunoco Pipeline LP's Mariner East project in Chester County leaked into Marsh Creek Lake in a state park of the same name on Monday -- one of three incidents in recent days along the pipeline construction project route. Virginia Cain, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, said the agency is investigating the three incidents, ... Read More

Over the last half-century, the hopscotch board of empty lots along Delaware Avenue in Northern Liberties has come to feel like a permanent feature of the Philadelphia landscape. Building booms have come and gone, master plans have been adopted and revised, and yet those former industrial sites have stubbornly resisted the kind of development that has transformed neighborhoods elsewhere in the ... Read More

Aug. 4--Kevin C. DenDulk, "a phenomenal worker," never came home from the job Saturday. A motorist hit and killed the 30-year-old construction worker from Royersford, Montgomery County, at a job site more than 70 miles from his home along a stretch of Interstate 81 north in Hazle Twp. about 1:15 a.m. The driver fled, but Pennsylvania State Police arrested a Sugarloaf Twp. man in connection ... Read More

Aug. 2--Western Pennsylvania's top hospital systems are pushing ahead with major construction projects despite the economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. In Harmar, crews are working on the final touches of Allegheny Health Network's newest neighborhood hospital. The 23,000-square-foot "mini-hospital" under construction at Freeport and Guys Run roads will offer a 24-hour ... Read More

Aug. 2--WYALUSING TWP. -- Construction at a natural gas plant that could send tanker trucks carrying liquid methane through the Abingtons or the Back Mountain is on hold, but concerns over how the plant could eventually ship millions of gallons of the liquefied natural gas persist. New Fortress Energy began work on an approximately $800 million facility on Route 6 in Bradford County last year. ... Read More