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Southwest Philadelphia (formerly Kingsessing Township) is a section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that can be described as extending from the western side of the Schuylkill River to the city line, with the northern border defined by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission as east from the city line along Baltimore Avenue moving south along ...
List of Philadelphia neighborhoods; North Philadelphia; South Philadelphia; Southwest Philadelphia; ... (Philadelphia) Center City, Philadelphia; Center City East ...
Washington Square West is a neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The neighborhood roughly corresponds to the area between 7th and Broad Streets and between Chestnut and South Streets, bordering on the Independence Mall tourist area directly northeast, Market East to the north, Old City and Society Hill to the East, Bella Vista directly south, Hawthorne to the ...
Today Market East is a major shopping district and transportation hub for the city, as well as serving the convention district. The area remained relatively stable until the late 1940s and early 1950s, when shifts in demographics caused a decline in the area's business, due to increased suburbanization and the trend in the retail sector away from the inner city and more towards the suburban ...
Center City at night in May 2007 Logan Circle in 2011 Philadelphia City Hall at night in December 2012. Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts ...
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The Central planning district, for instance, encompasses not only Center City but also the adjacent North and South Philadelphia neighborhoods that have undergone significant redevelopment ("gentrification") since the 1990s; that district's boundaries now stretch from roughly Girard Avenue on the north to Washington Avenue on the south, and the ...
Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street on the north, Arch Street on the south, North Franklin Street and N. 7th Street on the east, to North Broad Street on ...