Naked Philly Blog Posts Archive - Page 7 of 590 - OCF Realty

Jul 12

Wondering About Some Zoning Notices on Delaware Ave.

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Jul, 12, 2018 | No Comments | Northern Liberties

A couple of readers have reached out to us in the last few days, wondering about some zoning notices they, uh, noticed, on the 800 block of N. Delaware Ave., just south of Wells Meats. This discovery was incredibly exciting, as zoning notices near the river are often a sign of a significant new project on the horizon. As we thought about the address, we recalled a story we wrote last year about a development called [...]
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Jul 11

Society Hill Beverage Could Go Through Some Changes

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Jul, 11, 2018 | No Comments | Queen Village

It wasn't so long ago that owning a beer distributor was one of the most enviable professions in Philadelphia. Thanks to the restrictive liquor laws in Pennsylvania, distributors had a huge captive audience of customers that were looking to throw a kegger or buy beers without the massive upcharge that comes from buying six-packs. But liquor laws loosened in 2016, increasing competition for beer distributors and nibbling at the bottom line. We've seen some beer distributors close or look [...]
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Jul 10

Change Coming For 2nd Corner at 40th & Market

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Jul, 10, 2018 | 5 Comments | West Philly

The corner of 40th & Walnut is officially the northwest edge of Penn's campus, but the reach of the university extends far beyond that intersection. Off-campus student housing has extended west of 40th Street for a long time, but it's only really been in the last decade or so that student housing has pushed north of Penn. The Hub buildings at 40th & Chestnut are rather obvious examples, but if you continue several blocks further [...]
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Jul 09

Movement at Last at Former Theater at 6th & Poplar?

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Jul, 09, 2018 | 1 Comment | Northern Liberties

The intersection of 6th & Poplar is a study in contrasts. The northwest corner is home to a row of homes that were built a few years ago, one of which recently traded for $760K. The southern section of the intersection is the northern edge of the Liberty Place Town Homes development, an affordable housing project that was constructed in the early 1960s and has architectural stylings that say as much. And then, on the [...]
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Jun 29

The New Rail Park is One of the Less Shady Places We’ve Visited

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Jun, 29, 2018 | 3 Comments | Loft District

The Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road Company was one of the most significant companies in US history, emerging as the largest company in the world shortly after the Civil War. This company not only controlled rail road lines, as the name suggests, but also owned an enormous coal interest, primarily focusing on mines in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. You might have heard of the Reading Rail Road from Monopoly, or maybe you remember that Reading controlled [...]
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Jun 28

We Got a Sneak Peek of L’Anima, and It Was L’Awesome

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Jun, 28, 2018 | 1 Comment | Graduate Hospital

Today is the first day for L'Anima, an Italian byob at the corner of 17th & Carpenter. Yesterday, the new restaurant offered a sneak preview of their space and their food, and we managed to snag an invite. To the extent that we're able to provide objective feedback after gorging on free pasta, we came away impressed. Retail space on the southeast corner View of the open kitchen Peek inside the restuarant The restaurant occupies an [...]
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Jun 27

Apartment Building Coming For a Long Vacant East Kensington Lot

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Jun, 27, 2018 | 4 Comments | East Kensington

We were scrolling through the ZBA calendar for today, and it came to our attention that development could finally be in store for a corner we've eyed for many years. 1836 E. York St. is an oddly shaped property at the intersection of Jasper St. and E. York St., in the northwestern corner of the East Kensington neighborhood. It's been vacant for decades as far as we can tell, and for the sake of clarity, [...]
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Jun 26

Deli Products Disappear on Hancock Street

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Jun, 26, 2018 | No Comments | South Kensington

We're pretty certain that the buildings at 1209-11 N. Hancock St. were originally built for residential purposes. The architectural details, like the locations of the windows and the intact cornices, strongly suggest an initial residential use. Somewhere along the line though, the buildings were combined into a single industrial use, most recently serving as a meat processing and distribution center. At least that's what an old listing and the sign advertising Joe Breslow Deli Products [...]
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Jun 26

New Apartment Buildings Appear Next to Progressive Worship Center

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Jun, 26, 2018 | No Comments | Grays Ferry

At the northwest corner of 26th & Federal stands the Progressive Worship Center, a Baptist church that's been operating since at least the 1990s. Also since the mid-1990s, an individual named Julius Cooper owned the sizable lots immediately to the west of the church. He didn't exactly keep them in pristine condition- more specifically, they were overgrown and trash strewn, and were blighting influences on the block. In the past More recently though, things changed [...]
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Jun 25

Double Branded Hotel Slowly Coming Together at 15th & Chestnut

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Jun, 25, 2018 | 2 Comments | Rittenhouse

One Meridian Plaza was constructed at the northeast corner of 15th & Chestnut in 1972, and was originally called the Fidelity Mutual Life Building, in honor of the company that co-developed the property. Eventually, Meridian Bank became the lead tenant in the building, and by the early 1990s it was also the headquarters for a little media upstart called Comcast. One Meridian Plaza is perhaps most famous though, because of a fire in 1991 in [...]
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