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New baby formula plant in Berks County gets another $8 million from the state

ByHeart, the country’s newest FDA-registered formula manufacturer, has now received more than $10 million from Pennsylvania

By Aaron Moselle/WHYY

Reading City Council removes head of redevelopment authority over racial slur

Ernest Schlegel used the term in an email exchange over the city’s plans to become a land bank.
By Anthony Orozco

Who has land, what do they do with it and how does that power shape cities

In 2015, residents of the Penn Plaza apartment buildings in Pittsburgh, Pa. learned that they’d have to leave their homes to make way for a new development. The news arrived like a pronouncement: this neighborhood, East Liberty, isn’t for you anymore.

By Fred Vigeant/WITF

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Philadelphia Land Bank halts plan to redevelop Kensington gardens into housing

The mixed-income housing development would be built in partnership with Scannapieco Development Corporation, the company behind some of the highest-end condo buildings in the city.

By Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY

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