Credit: Kieran Timberlake An artist’s rendering of the remade Dilworth Plaza on the west side of City Hall The new Dilworth Park, the revived urban space that had been an uninviting apron of concrete around City Hall, opens open today…

Maria Pouchnikova BIG BIRD CAGE: Katie Newsom Pastuszek, executive director of Outward Bound Philadelphia, at East Park Reservoir. The fence will stay, but public access will increase. An abandoned city reservoir on the edge of Strawberry Mansion, hidden by dense…

Mark Stehle UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY: Dilworth Plaza will reopen as Dilworth Park once the $55 million renovation — which began in January 2012 — is completed in September. At the northwest corner of Dilworth Plaza, young trees await planting amid stacks…

Maria Pouchnikova The Rev. Napoleon Divine, pastor of Christ International Baptist Church, has played a key role in helping the Liberian community in Southwest Philly begin to recover from a fire that killed four children and left 42 other residents…

Neal Santos IN SHORT SUPPLY: PTR Baler & Compactor in Port Richmond has found it difficult to find enough trained candidates for welding and other jobs. Mark Stehle JOB READINESS?: Alan Levin, president of Northeast Building Products, says he hires…

Mark Stehle FAREWELL: A gospel choir, flowers and speeches are part of the funeral ceremony for the row home. Who would think that the best way to make a point about preservation was to tear down a dilapidated row home?…