Over the summer, we reported on a new building at the corner of 6th St. & Washington Ave., a place that now contains Washington Avenue Dental Center on the first floor. At the time, we noticed a double-wide shell just to the south, at 1107 S. 6th St.

About a year

At 2305-07 Carpenter St. two new homes will soon replace an ugly old garage. Local developer MetroImpact purchased the property back in 2010 and tore down the garage. Due to a number of other projects moving forward in the neighborhood, Metro sold the property to TBM Group, a developer we

Living as we do, in a city with a largely older housing stock, we expose ourselves and our children to health risks due to lead exposure. Thanks to the ignorance of past generations (and some powerful lobbying from the lead industry), our everyday environment suffers from varying levels of lead

With many old churches in Philly going the way of the dust, we were happy to hear that the former 26th Precinct Police Station in East Kensington is being preserved and renovated. It ain’t a church, but it is definitely both old and lovely. (Can we say lovely on this

It's somehow been over two weeks since we've mentioned the Spring Arts/West Poplar/Spring Garden neighborhood (call it whatever you wanna call it, we give up), and that just seems wrong, considering how much development is going on over there these days. As you may recall, we wrote about some new

Arthur Faber LLC purchased 922-26 N 17th St., three vacant lots between Cambridge St. and Girard Ave., for $157.5K about a year ago. The property owners went to zoning for a variance to turn the three lots into one, and construct a six-family home at this site. As you can

One thing happening with old crumbling Philly churches, whose stones once served as testaments to the eyes and ornaments of the West Philly skyline, is their use for emergency homeless shelters and community programs.

One example of this is the Christ Memorial Church, located at 4233 Chestnut St., where more than

A reader asked us about 100 Market St., the long vacant bar at the corner of Front and Market Sts. with the stellar old timey sign. The property is currently under construction.

As it turns out, this historic building has a fairly interesting recent history. Though it had been empty for

838-840 N. 20th St., at the northwest corner of 20th and Parrish Sts., are being developed into two homes by Dottie Properties, LLC. For years, these were overgrown corner lots.

According to the zoning application, the two houses being built will be single family homes with roofdecks. With all the action

This weekend, after a tasty brunch at Cantina Dos Segundos, we were meandering around the neighborhood, enjoying the disturbingly warm weather. We checked out an Open House on New Market St., noticed that work has apparently resumed at Poplar Point, and witnessed serious masonry work going on at the former