Philadelphia Launches Fair Chance Hiring Initiative

Philadelphia, PA - launched the Fair Chance Hiring Initiative (FCHI), a pilot program designed to encourage businesses to provide Philadelphians with meaningful employment when they return from incarceration. The Fair Chance Hiring Initiative was created to provide a more efficient alternative to the current Philadelphia Re-Entry Program (PREP) Tax Credit, and if successful this program will be proposed as a permanent replacement for PREP in the future.

Philadelphia's Free Events Celebrating the Nation’s Independence

Philadelphia, PA – Mayor Jim Kenney of the City of Philadelphia, and Welcome America, Inc. today announced 50 free events that will create the 2017 Wawa Welcome America six-day festival Thursday, June 29 through Tuesday, July 4.

Uban Trees: Arbor Day at Philadelphia’s Wissinoming Park

Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy and TD Bank are partnering with local and national organizations to celebrate urban trees on Arbor Day at Philadelphia’s historic Wissinoming Park. Dozens of arborists from Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Pennsylvania Delaware Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture will climb and prune the many large trees at the park, volunteers from TreePhilly sponsor TD Bank will help with tree maintenance and activities, and local school students will do fun activities to learn about tree care and tree identification.

Improvements Comming to Philadelphia's Courtyard at City Hall

Philadelphia, PA - Exciting new features in the Courtyard at City Hall were unveiled today, highlighting this important public space’s history and its central place in Philadelphia’s heart.

Choice Hotels Comming to 219 S. Broad St. Center City Philadelphia's

Philadelphia, PA -- Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), one of the world's largest hotel companies, along with Pearl Properties and Concord Hospitality Enterprises Company announced today the "topping off" of the Cambria Hotel Philadelphia, marking installation of the final exterior beam during construction.

PPR Announces Annual Completion of the Fairmount Park Deer Management Program

Philadelphia, PA -  Philadelphia Parks and Recreation (PPR) Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell announced the completion and results of the Fairmount Park Deer Management program for winter 2017 and rescinded the temporary curfew for the West Fairmount Park, Cobbs Creek Park, Tacony Creek Park, Wissahickon Valley and Pennypack Park areas of the Fairmount Park system.

Implementation of the project began in December 2016 and was conducted on 14 nights over the next 113 weeks.  In total, 281 deer were removed, 44 from West Fairmount Park, 77 from the Wissahickon Valley, 28 from Cobbs Creek Park, 11 from Tacony Creek Park and 121 from Pennypack Park. The project was conducted with safety as a paramount concern and carried out with the utmost efficiency and minimal inconvenience to the public.  As a result of the project, over 7,000 pounds of venison were distributed through local food banks to feed needy people in the Philadelphia area.

The amount of deer removed represents a significant step toward reversing the impact of deer overpopulation on the vegetation in these forests and reducing the number of deer-vehicle collisions on Philadelphia roadways. Philadelphia Parks and Recreation will continue to monitor the deer populations in all of its park areas and take the necessary actions to control those populations.