Andrew Whalen 🚶♂️ I’m walking here
@awwhalen.bsky.social
flâneur: indulging in the idle joy of wandering aimlessly through winding urban streets
Love everything about Lancaster living. I’m on the City Planning Commission and always looking for the best in cities.
Love everything about Lancaster living. I’m on the City Planning Commission and always looking for the best in cities.
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I didn’t join @bsky.app to get a ton of likes or amass followers — although having more followers than following is a dream.
I’m simply delighted to sit at the feet of some amazing people who have a love for community, urbanism and planning.
Thank you 😊
I’m simply delighted to sit at the feet of some amazing people who have a love for community, urbanism and planning.
Thank you 😊
Next year, I think I wanna do some kind of fixer-Christmas where we all just bring things that we want fixed on our Christmas list. Fix my socks, put a new battery in my watch kind of thing…
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Next year, I think I wanna do some kind of fixer-Christmas where we all just bring things that we want fixed on our Christmas list. Fix my socks, put a new battery in my watch kind of thing…
I would love to go back to this moment of pure bliss.
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I would love to go back to this moment of pure bliss.
🎄 First Friday in Lancaster’s downtown. It was totally worth braving the winter chill to see a reindeer 🦌 🎄
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🎄 First Friday in Lancaster’s downtown. It was totally worth braving the winter chill to see a reindeer 🦌 🎄
5 acres: 800 units passive haus, grocery, day care 😊
Plans for Wheaton mixed-use complex with 800 apartments get green light
Construction on the first phase of the Wheaton Gateway project could begin by 2027, according to developers.
bethesdamagazine.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
5 acres: 800 units passive haus, grocery, day care 😊
Blending the old with the new.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Blending the old with the new.
Making huge strides at the Catherine Hershey Early Childhood Education Center on Walnut and Plum. Great adaptive reuse ♻️
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Making huge strides at the Catherine Hershey Early Childhood Education Center on Walnut and Plum. Great adaptive reuse ♻️
The renovation was designed to meet “passive house” certification, a rigorous international sustainability standard that drastically reduces a building’s energy use through airtight insulation, efficient windows and mechanical ventilation that recycles heat.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The renovation was designed to meet “passive house” certification, a rigorous international sustainability standard that drastically reduces a building’s energy use through airtight insulation, efficient windows and mechanical ventilation that recycles heat.
“We’re trying to do something that’s atypical and out of the box,” Pellman said. “We have an active permit, but the historic board wasn’t notified early on. Now we’re stuck waiting — we were told we could proceed, but we can’t schedule inspections. There’s not a lot of clarity.”
Lancaster homeowner’s energy-efficient renovation sparks clash over historic preservation [Lancaster Watchdog]
A Lancaster city homeowner’s effort to make his house a highly energy-efficient property has turned into a dispute over whether the city should prioritize historical character over environmental impac...
lancasteronline.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“We’re trying to do something that’s atypical and out of the box,” Pellman said. “We have an active permit, but the historic board wasn’t notified early on. Now we’re stuck waiting — we were told we could proceed, but we can’t schedule inspections. There’s not a lot of clarity.”
The New York Stock Exchange will leave along with the billionaires and the middle class will have to pay all the taxes — So they will leave too.
False: There is no middle class 😆
False: There is no middle class 😆
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The New York Stock Exchange will leave along with the billionaires and the middle class will have to pay all the taxes — So they will leave too.
False: There is no middle class 😆
False: There is no middle class 😆
Perhaps a not so crazy idea…
Can we build hydroponic farms adjacent or on top of AI data centers?
Can we build hydroponic farms adjacent or on top of AI data centers?
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Perhaps a not so crazy idea…
Can we build hydroponic farms adjacent or on top of AI data centers?
Can we build hydroponic farms adjacent or on top of AI data centers?
Another disheartening headline. Nearby Lancaster County has a similar problem. Despite heroic farmland preservation efforts, we continue to make the same mistakes.
Farmland to front porches: Homes become Cumberland County’s cash crop
Cumberland County’s new identity is rooted in large, elaborate mixed-use developments being built on former farmland.
www.pennlive.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Another disheartening headline. Nearby Lancaster County has a similar problem. Despite heroic farmland preservation efforts, we continue to make the same mistakes.
We all know the history of many nursery rhymes.
So… How long after we stop vaxxing until there is a whole new book of nursery rhymes for this generation? #RingAroundtheRosie #LondonBridgeisFallingDown #KidzBop
So… How long after we stop vaxxing until there is a whole new book of nursery rhymes for this generation? #RingAroundtheRosie #LondonBridgeisFallingDown #KidzBop
a man in a plague doctor costume with a top hat
ALT: a man in a plague doctor costume with a top hat
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We all know the history of many nursery rhymes.
So… How long after we stop vaxxing until there is a whole new book of nursery rhymes for this generation? #RingAroundtheRosie #LondonBridgeisFallingDown #KidzBop
So… How long after we stop vaxxing until there is a whole new book of nursery rhymes for this generation? #RingAroundtheRosie #LondonBridgeisFallingDown #KidzBop
You and @philrosenthal.bsky.social should team up. By now you must know every restaurant in the City.
This guy from Lancaster is wishing you the best of everything this coming Tuesday and beyond.
This guy from Lancaster is wishing you the best of everything this coming Tuesday and beyond.
October 31, 2025 at 10:49 AM
You and @philrosenthal.bsky.social should team up. By now you must know every restaurant in the City.
This guy from Lancaster is wishing you the best of everything this coming Tuesday and beyond.
This guy from Lancaster is wishing you the best of everything this coming Tuesday and beyond.
And the portico too.
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
And the portico too.
Not even a year ago 😮💨
October 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not even a year ago 😮💨
Only problem with this proposal?
I don’t think 20,000 units is enough. 8,000 acres x 7 units = 56,000 This is what I would consider the minimum density for development— probably more by a train station.
I don’t think 20,000 units is enough. 8,000 acres x 7 units = 56,000 This is what I would consider the minimum density for development— probably more by a train station.
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Only problem with this proposal?
I don’t think 20,000 units is enough. 8,000 acres x 7 units = 56,000 This is what I would consider the minimum density for development— probably more by a train station.
I don’t think 20,000 units is enough. 8,000 acres x 7 units = 56,000 This is what I would consider the minimum density for development— probably more by a train station.
You down with TOD?
Yeah you know me!
Yeah you know me!
NJ Transit proposes developing unused land to raise $1.9 billion - Trains
NEWARK, N.J. — NJ Transit could raise up to $1.9 billion for its operations over the next 30 years through development of more than 8,000 acres of unused agency-owned real estate, the transit operator...
www.trains.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You down with TOD?
Yeah you know me!
Yeah you know me!
“It’s petty revenge politics that would screw hundreds of thousands of New York and New Jersey commuters, choke off our economy and kill good-paying jobs.”
Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“It’s petty revenge politics that would screw hundreds of thousands of New York and New Jersey commuters, choke off our economy and kill good-paying jobs.”
Not every residential build needs to be sexy. Just give me clean lines, density, and an abundance of amenities.
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Not every residential build needs to be sexy. Just give me clean lines, density, and an abundance of amenities.
Reposted by Andrew Whalen 🚶♂️ I’m walking here
PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.
For business and first class passengers:
✔️Free shoe shines
✔️Onboard conference room by reservation
✔️Cloth headrests and travel neck pillows
✔️Door-to-door baggage service
For first class passengers:
✔️First class quiet section
✔️Massage chairs pads
✔️Onboard and metropolitan lounge massage services
✔️Free shoe shines
✔️Onboard conference room by reservation
✔️Cloth headrests and travel neck pillows
✔️Door-to-door baggage service
For first class passengers:
✔️First class quiet section
✔️Massage chairs pads
✔️Onboard and metropolitan lounge massage services
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For business and first class passengers:
✔️Free shoe shines
✔️Onboard conference room by reservation
✔️Cloth headrests and travel neck pillows
✔️Door-to-door baggage service
For first class passengers:
✔️First class quiet section
✔️Massage chairs pads
✔️Onboard and metropolitan lounge massage services
✔️Free shoe shines
✔️Onboard conference room by reservation
✔️Cloth headrests and travel neck pillows
✔️Door-to-door baggage service
For first class passengers:
✔️First class quiet section
✔️Massage chairs pads
✔️Onboard and metropolitan lounge massage services