Over the summer, we told you about 1900 Christian St., a vacant corner property uglying up the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Still no word on when it's going on the market, but today we're looking at it as a worthwhile test study of the Doors and Windows program from L&I.

As you

SOAP! quietly opened on Black Friday at 1742 East Passyunk Ave., in the former Enki space.  SOAP-makers Nathan and Denise Vernier, along with business partner Richard Salloum, decided to move from their online-only original location to open up a retail shop on bustling East Passyunk Avenue.  The store smells oh-so-delightful, and the huge glass storefront windows

The Sidney Hillman Medical Center, a modernist building at 2116 Chestnut St., is in the process of being torn down. According to Plan Philly, the building was designed by Magaziner & Ploss, and is barely sixty years old. Some argued for the preservation of this building, insisting that it represented an

A couple of readers gave us the heads up about a newly dug hole at the corner of 20th and Dickinson Sts. and we, of course, went and checked it out.

We had some trouble finding out the situation with these three lots, but eventually got our information from the RDA's

Commenter G-ho Res gave us the heads up about an impressive mural that's been revealed with the complete demolition of the 3rd story of 1801 Christian St., a subject we wrote about yesterday.

As we mentioned yesterday, the building's owner allowed BetterBlocks Philly to use the vacant space back in October.

As we mentioned earlier this week when we wrote about the demolition at the former Wilkie Auto Body Shop, the massive project at 600 N. Broad St. is more or less complete. The site, which once held several Wilkie car dealerships, has been transformed by EB Realty Management Corp. and PMC Property

Over the summer, we brought the Mortgage Security Building, located at 18th St. & Fairmount Ave., to your attention. The building has wonderful bones but is poorly used and badly maintained.

Last week, a reader brought some construction activity at this site to our attention. Naturally, we scurried over to check

According to five zoning applications from September, four developers intend to build five homes at 2001-2009 W. Oxford St. These are currently vacant lots.

The proposed homes will apparently differ from one another. 2001 W. Oxford St. will be a three story duplex. 2003 will be a duplex with a garage.

The same developer currently building six homes on a terrible block in Point Breeze is getting started on a new project in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Roman Mosheyev started demolition work last week at 1801 Christian St., and the place looks like it will be gone within a matter of days.

Replacing

As things start to level off at the former Wilkie dealerships at 600 N Broad St. (full story coming later this week), we've spotted some action at the former Wilkie Auto Body at 449 N. Broad St., a structure that's been empty for a few years now. We passed by