According to the zoning docket, 924 North 15th Street LLC is planning on developing 924 N 15th St. (shocking, right?). This project, just a few blocks north of the development we just told you about earlier today, marks yet another vacant lot in Francisville that's getting filled in with new

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We've had our eye on this site since the fall, first telling you about this big and exciting project in October, and then showing you some ongoing demolition photos in December. 1424 Fairmount Ave. was most recently was a seafood warehouse, but has been completely demolished and a new structure is rising

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Yesterday, we noticed two new homes being framed out at 1205-07 S. 18th St., replacing two vacant lots. Take a look at what the area looked like up until recently:

Yesterday, things looked a little more exciting:

Developer Neal Rubin, who has done a few other projects around town, purchased each of

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In October, we told you about the reconstruction of the 2100 block of Carpenter Street, a block that looked like this in 2004:

At that time, there were thirty vacant lots on this block. In October, we counted five that remained. And now, three of those vacant lots are on the outs.

2115

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We've talked about this intersection before. We told you about the five duplexes that will be replacing the demolished American Methodist Episcopal Zionist Church on the southwest corner (footers are in as of last week). We fantasized about the development opportunity on the northwest corner, where an underused post office could

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Esteemed developer Virgil Procaccino has an agreement of sale to purchase the Pain Center, located on the southeast corner of 12th and Lombard Sts.

Unfortunately named but rather well located, this medical center's days appear to be numbered, contrary to our speculations back in September. At the time, we suggested that a

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A couple of months back, we gave you the heads up about a halted construction project at 2030-32 E Dauphin St., in East Kensington. According to one of our commenters, it's a ten-unit building with ground floor parking. And it stretches all the way to Fletcher St.!

Turns out, this partially

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According to a couple of different sources, Lorraine Hotel LP, owners of the Divine Lorraine building as well as the large lot to its rear, are on the verge of selling off the building. The agreement, with an unknown buyer, will be contingent on separating the land that the building

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The ten-home project at 19th and Catharine Sts., which we've been keeping tabs on for nearly a year, continues to chug along. The first five homes, which front Dorrance St., appear to be nearing completion. The second series of homes, fronting 19th St., just started going up this week.

The homes in

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It seems appropriate, on the day after E.M. Stanton and Isaac Sheppard Elementary were spared closure by the SRC, to wonder about the fate of the former George W. Childs School. Located at 17th and Tasker Sts. in Point Breeze for over a century, the school moved to 16th and Wharton Sts.

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