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Countdown to 2010: Andrew's Top Ten Area Urban Development Projects
December 9, 2009 12:30 PM
Earlier this year, Deputy Mayor for Sustainability Mark Alan Hughes unveiled Greenworks Philadelphia, the city's first sustainability framework that includes steps to make Philadelphia's future more competitive, prosperous and vibrant. The plan proposes initiatives that create jobs, improve the quality of our physical landscape and generally bring communities closer together…. On the morning he unveiled the plan (which he did in front of the Ben Franklin statue at the Franklin Institute. Epic.), he also announced the installation of hundreds of BigBelly solar-powered trash and recycling containers (now a ubiquitous image on any Center City street).
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