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  • Letters: City Needs Policy on Digital Signs

    Philadelphia Inquirer Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Letters to the Editor: City needs policy on digital signs Inga Saffron's article on the PECO sign brings up an issue SCRUB has been working on for quite some time - the issue of digital or electronic sign...

  • Editorial: Fighting blight on a bigger stage

    August 3, 2009 The Philadelphia Inquirer Don't get Mary Tracy started about those newfangled electronic billboards cropping up on the nation's highways - that is, unless you have the time to talk. The antibillboard activist and founder of Philadelphia-...

  • Leave city's parkland alone

    Wednesday, December 10, 2008 The Philadelphia Inquirer By: Sandra Shea Today's Daily News editorial, analyzing a judge's decision to stop Fox Chase Cancer Center from taking city parkland to expand, also marks the beginning of a new intensity the edit...

  • Judge Saves Burholme Park from Hospital

    Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Skyline Online By: Inga Saffron This just in: Orphans Court Judge John W. Herron Jr. has just issued an opinion denying the city the right to sell 20 acres of Burholme Park to Fox Chase Cancer Center. The park remains a par...

  • Battle continues over hospital's use of park site

    Wed, Jun. 10, 2009 By Tom Waring Times Staff Writer Both sides in the battle over the future of Burholme Park emerged from a Monday afternoon court hearing confident of victory. Fox Chase Cancer Center, located at 333 Cottman Ave., wants to expand by ...

  • Court to City: "Parks Too Precious to Privatize"

    Upon Further Review, The Philadelphia Bar Association February 6, 2009 By: Stacey Graham Philadelphia Orphans’ Court Judge, John W. Herron’s recent decision on the City of Philadelphia’s petition to grant a long-term lease of Burholme Park prop...

  • Public-Private Conflict Over Philadelphia’s Public Spaces

    The Legal Intelligencer April 27, 2009 By: Rebecca E. Johnson, Esq. The look, feel, and energy of Philadelphia's public spaces reflect who we are. These public spaces - everything from the sidewalk to the skyline - belong to everyone, yet are owned b...

  • Supreme Court Won't Hear Burholme Park Case Under King's Bench Power

    The Legal Intelligencer Friday, February 27, 2009 By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff The state Supreme Court has decided against exercising its King's Bench jurisdiction to hear fast-tracked arguments over Fox Chase Cancer Center's desire to ex...

  • Fox Chase, loser in park ruling, wants to leapfrog to Supreme Court

    By VALERIE RUSSPhiladelphia Daily News Wednesday, January 7, 2009 russv@phillynews.com 215-854-5987 Fox Chase Cancer Center wants to skip Commonwealth Court and go directly to the State Supreme Court to appeal an Orphans Court judge's ruling that rejec...

  • Unisys Makes A Bid For Center City Signs

    Daily News, Philly Clout Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Unisys, the Blue Bell-based tech firm that has signed a 15-year lease to relocate to Center City's Two Liberty Place, spent two hours this afternoon trying to convince the city's Zoning Board of Adjustme...

  • Letters: Philadelphia Parks Are Not Disposable Assets

    Sunday, June 7, 2009 The Philadelphia Inquirer The editorial "The park's close call" on May 30 aptly noted that the dissolution of the Fairmount Park Commission has created risks. When we lost the Park Commission, we lost a layer of public participati...

  • No Bees on the Inquirer

    September 17, 2007 New York Times By PRADNYA JOSHI Since taking over The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News last year, Brian P. Tierney, chief executive of Philadelphia Media Holdings, has been encouraging his advertising department to ...

  • Bee ad for Inquirer building dropped

    September 15, 2007 Philadelphia Inquirer Brian Tierney, CEO of the newspaper, took the wings off the plan. Critics called it garish. By Robert Moran Inquirer Staff Writer Stung by community opposition, a pun-inspired Brian Tierney, chief of the company ...

  • Building ad swatted. Why? Bee-cause

    September 15, 2007 Philadelphia Daily News By MARK McDONALD mcdonam@phillynews.com 215-854-2646 To bee or not to bee? That was the question. Answer: Not. Brian Tierney, chief executive officer of Philadelphia Media Holdings (PMH), which owns the ...

  • Giant ad on Inquirer building in doubt

    September 12, 2007 Philadelphia InquirerBy Patrick Kerkstra Inquirer Staff Writer A plan to temporarily drape the Inquirer-Daily News Building with a massive advertisement for the film Bee Movie was in doubt yesterday, after community groups denounced t...

  • The Felling of the Hoagie City Billboard

    Philadelphia City Paper, September 12, 2007 The big billboard was everyone's poster child for urban blight. by Bruce Schimmel The big billboard at 40th and Lancaster was everyone's poster child for urban blight. Hiding the historic façade of the West...

  • Ads in the digital age

    The Northeast Times, September 6, 2007By William KennyTimes Staff Writer Sick of seeing "I hate Steven Singer" in giant bold letters on your way downtown every work day? How about the litany of Miller Lite, Coors ...

  • Neighbors hope to pull digital billboards

    By William M. Welch, USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Mark Legan has enjoyed his quiet, leafy neighborhood for 12 years, until someone threw a switch and filled his nights with bright, colorful lights. "When the sun goes down, you can't ignore it," he says...

  • Video billboards coming this way

    Philadelphia Inquirer, August 21, 2007 Police praise them. Conservationists and driver-safety groups oppose them. By Joseph A. SlobodzianInquirer Staff Writer One of ClearChannel's digital billboards in the Cleveland ...

  • Digital billboards to debut in city

    Philadelphia Daily News, August 21, 2007 By CATHERINE LUCEY luceyc@phillynews.com 215-854-4172 Digital billboards - which rotate through several static advertisements each minute - will make their debut in the Philadelphia area this week. Already the h...