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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Classified advertisements website Craigslist Inc. Logo used since 1995 Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008 Type of business Private Type of site Classifieds, forums Available in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Founded 1995 ; 30 years ago (1995 ...
Girard Estate, also known as Girard Estates, is part of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its boundaries stretch from South 22nd Street on the west to South 17th Street on the east. Its boundaries stretch from South 22nd Street on the west to South 17th Street on the east.
But if Philadelphia was indebted to England for the name of High Street, nearly every American town is, in turn, indebted to Philadelphia for its Market Street. Long before the city was laid out or settled, Philadelphia's founder, William Penn, had planned that markets would be held regularly on the 100-foot (30 m) wide High Street.
On November 7, 2020, the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia may have been confused by the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign for Four Seasons Total Landscaping, a landscaping business on the outskirts of the city that hosted a press conference for the Trump campaign. This resulted in a burst of publicity for both the hotel and the landscaping ...
Anna C. Verna (1931–2021), Philadelphia City Council member and president; Charles A. Waters (1892–1972), Pennsylvania Auditor General, State Treasurer, and president judge of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas; R. Seth Williams (born 1967), Philadelphia district attorney; Fernando Wood (1812–1881), Mayor of New York
In December of that year, Fidelcor announced that the Al-Tajir Foundation, a real estate investment company owned by Mahdi Al Tajir, had agreed to buy Fidelity Building Corp. for US$63.5 million. [5] During the late-1980s office building boom in the West Market Street area of Center City, businesses left the Fidelity Building for newer office ...
Designed by the Philadelphia Fire Department, the memorial is located by the building's entrance and contains the firefighters' names on plaques. [17] [21] The Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron says the glass skyscraper is a "shocking" contrast next to the white marble of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Saffron said she liked the ...
The Philadelphia skyline as seen from Boathouse Row in June 2019 (annotated version) The Philadelphia skyline as seen from the Delaware River in February 2023 Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to more than 300 completed high-rise buildings and skyscrapers up to 330 feet (101 m), and 58 completed skyscrapers of 330 feet (101 m) or taller, of which 34 are ...