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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker visited Germantown on June 10 to celebrate Jumpstart Germantown’s 10th anniversary.
The Battery, developer Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds’ $153.6 million mixed-use project that recently transformed Delaware Generating Station, received $21 million in federal historic tax credits to help finance the project. The 108-year-old power station was listed on the National Register in 2016.
Last November, local developer Ken Weinstein learned he would not be appointed conservator for the Germantown YWCA. Next week, he’ll ask Judge Ann Butchart to reconsider.
A training program born in Germantown has helped more than 3,000 Philadelphians become real estate developers.
The real estate developer — along with 600 other volunteers statewide — is working to help people “cure” their rejected mail-in ballots.
A Philadelphia judge has dismissed real estate developer Ken Weinstein’s petition to take control of the former Germantown YWCA, a crumbling city-owned building that has sat vacant since closing more than two decades ago.
Developer Ken Weinstein has filed a petition to take possession of and rehabilitate the Germantown YWCA, a blighted city-owned building that has sat vacant for two decades.
Developer Ken Weinstein is trying to take control of the long-derelict Germantown YWCA, which Councilmember Cindy Bass has long promised would be redeveloped — with no results.
The Germantown YWCA, located in the heart of Germantown's historic district, has sat vacant for decades and remains mired in conflict over who should have the right to develop it.
SEPTA had long neglected station houses on its Northwest Philly Regional Rail lines and was looking for a private partner to rehab the buildings.
Developer Ken Weinstein, president of Philly Office Retail, points out finished and future redevelopment projects in the Wayne Junction Historic District.
When it comes to narrowing gaps in housing affordability and building local wealth--especially in communities marked by long histories of discrimination—it is important to invest in the expertise of minority developers, just as it is in the properties they build.
This weekend on Flashpoint, host Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions about ways government can look at systems to root out racism.
What happens when public, private and nonprofits work together to develop a neighborhood hub? Everyone benefits.
City Council President Darrell L. Clarke (center) speaks during a news conference at the site of a planned affordable housing development at Third and Berks Streets in North Philadelphia in 2020.
Jumpstart Philly director Angie Williamson with program participant David Hairston at a Germantown row house he is renovating.
Inspired by SEPTA’s $31 million effort in 2015 to renovate the Wayne Junction regional rail station, Philly Office Retail’s revitalization plan for the area that bridges Germantown and Nicetown bets big on the future of public transportation.
Ken Weinstein, owner of Philly Office Retail development company and co-founder of the Mt. Airy Business District, is teaming up with Morris Arboretum to turn Mt. Airy’s two-mile business corridor on Germantown Avenue into a leafy thoroughfare.
The historic St. Michael's Lutheran Church, 6671 Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy, was the site of some of the filming of the HBO seven-episode miniseries “Mare of Easttown.”
The Philadelphia Housing Authority has partnered with Jumpstart Philly on an initiative to rehabilitate houses and offer affordable homeownership.
Racqueal Howard won an only-in-Philly lottery and is now moving forward with a plan to redevelop a vacant Philadelphia Housing Authority property.
The redevelopment of a factory in Wayne Junction will serve as the second phase of Philly Office Retail’s vision for revitalizing the neighborhood.
The Church of Philadelphia was originally built and used by the National Tool & Stamp Company. Developer Ken Weinstein currently has the property under agreement of sale and plans to restore and adapt it for mixed use.
A Reinvestment Fund investment makes it possible for graduates of any Jumpstart program in the city to obtain easy access to capital to fund their first projects.
Developer Ken Weinstein celebrates the “homecoming” of Philly Office Retail to Germantown.
Both projects would rise on empty land beside existing buildings that developer Ken Weinstein is renovating.
Philly Office Retail and Mosaic Development Partners filled Germantowners in on development plans designed to turn a major transit hub into a hub of activity for Germantown and Nicetown.
Ken Weinstein wasn't sure how well the idea of gathering and training a force of residential developers to recycle housing in Germantown would play to the neighborhood.
Ken Weinstein, entrepreneur and developer, is well-known for rehabbing properties in Mount Airy. Now, he's turned his sights on Germantown, buying and refurbishing historic or vacant buildings and turning them into modern apartments and stores.