The city’s process for rezoning WCGN has resumed after a long hiatus caused by the pandemic. There is material online explaining the process, along with a cool interactive map showing current/proposed zoning. Based on months of researching specific blocks/properties, WCGN task force is preparing a report that will provide feedback to the city on what […]
In anticipation of relaxation of COVID guidelines, we have set Saturday, September 18, 2021 as a tentative date for a reprise of our very successful Yard Sale in the spring of 2019! So start gathering up the things you’d like to pass along and set them aside for September. If you have treasure too bulky […]
YOU CAN HELP WITH THIS! The Philadelphia City Planning Commission is getting back to its work on Phila 2035, including its plans to change the zoning map for our part of the city. The phase we are in right now is comparing the current zoning map for our area with the proposed one and putting […]
As of now, there are at least four very dense developments on the boards for our area: 1. MOSAIC: 6134R-46 Wayne Avenue, across from the Tulpehocken train station This is a complex of several buildings constituting 83 units—55 rentals and 28 condos, 25 parking spaces including one ADA. Mosaic presented its plans to WCGN at […]
This Lenfest-sponsored storytelling project is a cooperative venture of Germantown Info Hub and Gtown Radio. All you have to do to participate (and receive a stipend) is agree to be interviewed for about a half hour or 45 minutes with a story in mind. It’s pretty open-ended, but the topic(s) must relate to your life […]
There will be a WCGN RCO/Zoning Meeting March 3, 2021, at 6pm via Zoom. The only matter on the agenda is 15 W. Rittenhouse, which proposes a 32 unit development with 11 parking spaces and roof deck on a property currently zoned single family. Click here to view Development Drawings. Click here to view the […]
As many of you already know, a developer called Mosaic Development Partners owns the land between the Tulpehocken Train Station and the Tulpehocken Co-op Apartments along Wayne Avenue. After going back and forth with their proposals, they are now proposing an 83-unit development which will require them to present their plans to both the ZBA […]
Philadelphia Water Department – call-for-artists PWD partnered with the US Water Alliance and the Germantown Community Flood Risk Task Force to establish the Rising Ideas Community Arts project. This is a call for community artists, cultural leaders, and organizations interested in creating art addressing Germantown flooding. The intent of this community arts process is to […]
Germantown Info Hub and G-town Radio want to invite you to take part in our Germantown Info Hub Neighborhood Stories Project! We will produce more than 40 first-person narratives by and of Germantown neighbors. Germantown residents have the opportunity to interview a fellow neighbor for the project, or tell a story themselves and receive compensation. […]
WCGN recently received notice that as of December 15, 2020, Yahoo Groups will be shut down for good. That means we (and you) will no longer be able to access or use this platform to share news and information with each other. We believe this means that an email sent to WestCentralGermantownNeighbors@yahoogroups.com will just get […]
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