The Four Seasons is a sanctuary of opulence amid the bustle of Logan Square.  Enclosed by 18th, 19th, Race, and Cherry Streets, the five-star hotel brand came to Philly in the 1980s.

More than a century before the hotel boom came to Philadelphia, the city experienced a medical industry boom.  Among the many specialty treatment

As has been pretty well documented, the process of acquiring land from the City of Philadelphia is on the challenging side, to say the least. It's one of the reasons land bank conversations have been percolating for the past several years. But for now, it's numerous city agencies owning thousands

Last week, we gave you the heads up about the upcoming demolition of the former Pride of the Sea warehouse at 720 N 4th St., across the street from Honey’s Sit n’ Eat. Whelp, demolition has proceeded since then, and the site should be clear in the coming weeks.

The plan for this site

Last year, the City released Phila2035, a comprehensive plan for shaping the city for the next 25 years. Sure, sounds great. But how?

Adopted by the City Planning Commission last June, the plans were organized into four chapters, defining the context, building on our strengths, framing our future, and making it happen. Simple enough? Filtering

A reader checked in, noting that two homes were demoed last week on the 1500 block of Woodstock St., in Point Breeze. South of Dickinson, between 20th and 21st Sts., this little block has some homes that have clearly been tastefully redone in recent years.

Public record, unfortunately, isn't much help

Last week, we told you about a 200-unit apartment building being proposed on North Columbus Blvd., between to Sugarhouse casino and Waterfront Square. At the same Planning Commission meeting where these plans were discussed, the same architects, Cope Linder, presented plans for another tower on the same street, just a

Back in October, 1801 Christian St., a vacant shell, was used as one of the bases of operation for the successful BetterBlocks Philly program. At the time, developer Roman Mosheyev proposed the demolition of the building, and its replacement with a single family home. This was after an initial proposal for a two

In our last post, we discussed one of Philly’s longer-running venues, the frequently repurposed TLA.  Today, we look into the history of one of the city’s newest venues: Union Transfer, at 1026 Spring Garden St.

The mid-sized music venue has generated a ton of buzz, quickly emerging as one of Philly’s best.  Drawing an

If you’ve been tracing the line of development north of Brewerytown, you might have stumbled across 25 new town homes, interspersed among existing housing stock on 31st Street, between Berks and Diamond Streets. The Strawberry Mansion Town Homes, as per their namesake, reside in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, near the eastern edge of

Just two blocks from the South Gateway project that we mentioned last week, developer Tejas Properties 2 LLC is proposing a much smaller residence for Temple students. On a block with several properties with similar density, these developers intend to construct a four-story, seventeen unit building at 1431 N 15th