Four nonprofits have received grants of preliminary design services in through the Community Design Collaborative’s Design Grant Program. We'll be helping them activate two sacred spaces and two lots for community use.
Robin Kohles served as project manager for the Collaborative’s economic development design services for eight years. As Robin wraps up her tenure at the Collaborative, we asked...
The 2016 Storefront Challenge recognized over a dozen businesses for improving their storefront facades. The finalists and winners in this citywide contest reflect the diversity...
The newly vibrant 4th Street Fabric Row needed a better streetscape and lighting to reach its full potential, and the Collaborative prepared South Street Headhouse District to...
Public health, preservation, and place-keeping were the timely topics of this year's Corridor Realities.
Every two years, the Community Design Collaborative and Philadelphia...
Guest columnist Patricia Blakely talks about how every small business can become a “façade fanatic". She would know! As Executive Director of The Merchants Fund, she offers grants...
Each year, the Collaborative and the Philadelphia Department of Commerce share some of the lessons we’ve learned working together on Philly's neighborhood commercial corridors by...
Sometimes, you need to see the big picture to get things going.
Good food can help too.
The barren plaza, dim lighting, and confusing crosswalks under the El at the Arrott...
“The Ballad of Trayvon Martin” is winning accolades for the New Freedom Theater. The play’s the thing, but behind the scenes the Collaborative is helping the theater sustain its...
Does a well-designed storefront façade really make a difference?
Commerce recently released a study on the economic impact of its Storefront Improvement Program (SIP). “We’d...
