The metro map
Where the money is moving
Every Philadelphia neighborhood, shaded by what's happening on the public record — permits pulled, deals recorded, licenses issued, and distress piling up. Switch the metric, drop in the notable deals and the megaprojects, and click through to any address.
Get the weekly issue.
The deals, the permits, and the LLCs that moved the map this week — one email, every Thursday, every number checkable against the public record.
What you're looking at
Neighborhood shading (choropleth)
Each of Philadelphia's neighborhoods is shaded by the selected metric — building permits and new-construction units (last 12 months), new business licenses, median recorded deed price and total deal volume, open L&I violations, and tax-delinquent parcels. Buckets are quantiles of the active metric; neutral means no activity on record. Neighborhood aggregates cover Philadelphia County only.
Notable points
Recorded deeds of $2M or more, permits for 10+ units or commercial new construction, and unsafe / imminently-dangerous designations — all from the last 12 months, capped at 500 per type. Click any point for the numbers and a link to that address's full record.
Megaprojects
Hand-pinned set-piece developments the newsletter tracks — the Navy Yard, the Bellwether District, Schuylkill Yards, the arena site, Penn's Landing, and Market East. Approximate locations.
Sources
City of Philadelphia open data (Dept. of Records deeds; L&I permits, licenses, violations & unsafe designations; real-estate tax delinquencies), geocoded and tagged to neighborhoods in our weekly ingest. Neighborhood boundaries from the Azavea / OpenDataPhilly Philadelphia neighborhoods dataset. Basemap © CARTO, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Verify independently before relying on any figure.