What We're Reading: Week of April 3, 2023

Here's what we're reading this week about the projects, people and policies driving local development:

🚸The Republican Chair of the Pa. House Education Committee calls for a complete overhaul of Pennsylvania’s education funding formula to comply with the recent court ruling on education funding

by Jesse Topper for Real Clear Pennsylvania, Mar 27, 2023

🦉Jason Wingard, President of Temple University, stepped down in response to vote of the Temple academic union to hold a vote of no confidence. Wingard was the third President to lead Temple University in the past ten years, and the fifth since long-term President Peter Liacouras stepped down in 2000

by Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal, Updated Mar 29, 2023

🏀Inga Saffron points out the challenges of building an arena over an existing, active rail station, and points out the impact to the quality of the spaces on the station’s tracks

by Inga Saffron for The Inquirer, Updated Mar 23, 2023

A vitamin manufacturer along upper Roosevelt Boulevard is closing its Philadelphia operations to consolidate national operations, resulting in a loss of over 200 manufacturing jobs

by Jeff Blumenthal for the Philadelphia Business Journal, Apr 3, 2023

Massachusetts passed a transit-oriented housing law to address housing affordability by requiring municipalities served by the state’s public transit system to create minimum “as of right” multi-family zoning districts to address the high cost of existing housing in their communities

by Michael Hoban for the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Mar 29, 2023