The Student Store at 1447-49 Ridge Ave., run by the People for People Charter School, is being turned into a take-out spot.  People for People is a K-8 Charter School at the corner of Broad and Brown Sts. that focuses on entrepreneurial skills for its students. The

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If you find yourself near Passyunk Square (the park itself, not the neighborhood named after it), you might notice a large warehouse on the northwest corner of 12th and Wharton Sts.

While no one has recently mistaken Passyunk Square for Rittenhouse Square, it does seem strange for this large, seemingly vacant

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On Thursday, Aug. 4th at 1pm, University City District and the Mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) will officially unveil Philadelphia's First Parklet, on 43rd St. just above Baltimore Ave. Parklets, fairly common in Europe and growing in popularity in San Francisco and New York, are small public spaces

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Santucci's has opened their seventh location at the southeast corner of 10th & Christian, their first location outside of Northeast Philly. Back in 1959, Joseph Santucci, Jr. and his wife Philomena reinvented the traditional square tomato pie by adding slices of mozzarella cheese under their homemade special sauce,

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This 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom new rehab offers about 1400 sqft. of living space. The first floor includes a living room, dining room, powder room, and eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances, granite countertops, and a tile backsplash. On the second floor are two large bedrooms and one smaller bedroom,

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Although Wilson Eyre, Jr. (1858-1944) was born in Florence, Italy, much of his architectural practice took place in the Philadelphia area. When he was eleven, Eyre’s family ventured back to the United States to live in Newport, Rhode Island. Later on, after Eyre had studied architecture for a brief time

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A reader has tipped us off that the buildings on the southeast corner of 15th and Walnut Sts. might not be long for this world.

 
The corner building currently houses Miga, Elixr, and Panache Hair Design, and has not had a tenant in the corner space since Bank of America moved

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As we mentioned last week, CATCH is building Patriot House, renovating three row houses on S. 15th St. between Federal and Wharton Sts. for veterans struggling with substance abuse issues and mental health disorders. Yesterday, we were contacted by a representative for the architects on the project, KSK Architects, who

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Aiming to open in August, NEST will provide parents and kids with an indoor play space to enjoy. A popular offering in major cities across the US, and even as close as Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia is finally catching up and parents will only have to go as far as 13th

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This 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house in Pennsport offers over 1600 sqft. of living space. On the first floor is a living room with wide plank pine floors and exposed brick, a separate dining room area and a kitchen with access to the outdoor patio. The kitchen includes stainless steel

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