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Mayor Nutter’s proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2014 included $10 million in relief for small businesses that experience an increase in property taxes under AVI. The relief measure will be aimed solely at property taxes,

University City is projected to see some of the most dramatic property tax increases in the city under Actual Value Initiative. For the University City District, it isn’t exactly clear what the overall effects of

Elementary school children, still wearing their uniforms from various West Philadelphia schools, jittered about as they waited for their free, after-school Spanish class to begin. Friends of Walnut Street West Library, a volunteer organization dedicated

Author Eve Troutt Powell held a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania bookstore on Tuesday evening to talk about her book, Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan and the Ottoman

When Charles Burke, a junior architecture major at Penn University, first heard about the Actual Value Initiative – the reassessment of every property in the city of Philadelphia done with the intention of rooting the

[vimeo 59468918] The Lam family took a chance. They pooled together their money to open a restaurant, named Saigon Cuisine, and entrusted two brothers, Then and Len Lam, to make it successful. “We know we can

https://vimeo.com/59469218] Long hallways lined with student lounges and study areas can be seen upon entering International House Philadelphia, located at 37th and Chestnut streets. Groups of people gather eating lunch while others are tucked away

Expansion has been occurring around the University City District into other neighborhoods, such as West Powelton. How AVI will affect this expansion remains unclear.