Mantua

When several stores on Lancaster Avenue went out of business, the owners gave Victor Jackson, a longtime neighborhood resident, their leftover stock. This summer Jackson started his own weekend flea market selling the donated merchandise [continue reading…]

Working for a community center in Mantua is a long way from the pro-football career Zamir Cobb once had. However, in many ways, Cobb’s current career is very close to the care he provided as [continue reading…]

Carl Myles has a lot going against him when it comes to finding a job. He is an African American ex-convict who has been unemployed for two years. Although he doesn’t consider his car wash [continue reading…]

When Hakim Mumin opened up Forever Colors at 3906 Lancaster Ave., he wanted to make it more than a flower shop. After opening the vacant building he owned in the summer of 2005, he went [continue reading…]

West Philadelphia Real Estate specializes in developing affordable housing. The company currently has over 40 houses under construction in various West Philadelphia neighborhoods. The projects are a mixture of new construction and rehabilitation of deteriorated [continue reading…]

For Michael Rocco, principal of Philadelphia Learning Academy South, working to improve the lives of troubled youth is an ordinary day. Although he’s been working for the School District of Philadelphia for 31 years, Rocco [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18011273] Mantua residents once enjoyed a vivid, colorful mural on their walks home from Center City along the Spring Garden Street Bridge, but in the last three months diamond-plated paneling slowly stole their vibrancy. Tired [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18391663] “The office is a mess,” Alice Manos says with a laugh. “It doesn’t usually look like this.”  She stands off to the corner of the Spiral Q Theater office and pulls wires across the [continue reading…]