The stretch of Spring Garden Street between 5th and 9th Streets is a bit of a no man's land. It's home to a number of places you've heard of, like Traffic Court, the Edgar Allen Poe Historic Site, and a Red Cross building, but it lacks any sort of retail street

It's been a bumpy road for 613 S. 24th St. over the last several years, but now it finally appears as though something will be happening here. It was over seven years ago (yikes) that we first drew your gaze to this little property, noting that the two story building

Different people look for different things when they decide to live in Philadelphia. Do you prefer rowhome life and want to be able to walk downtown relatively quickly? The Graduate Hospital neighborhood might be the place for you. Are you instead looking for a vibrant and cool commercial corridor, but don't

When we lived in Passyunk Square back in the day, we occasionally visited Liberty Lumber at the corner of 7th & Alter, predictably to buy some lumber. The building supply business closed down a few years ago though, and in 2016 we told you that the upper floor of the

Saint Joseph's Hospital had a long and distinguished history, opening its doors at 16th & Girard in 1849 and saving countless lives over the years. The hospital ultimately shuttered in 2016, serving as another example of a community hospital that couldn't survive in the modern health care system in the

A rather unexciting industrial building appeared at 2508 E. Cumberland St. in the late 1930s, initially with a machine shop operating out of it. In those days, this property was sandwiched between two different galvanization plants, and a major lead paint company was located just around the corner. Over the years,

A couple months back, we drew your attention to the building at 752 S. 16th St., upon which a neighbor had discovered a demolition notice. At first we were rather upset, lamenting the imminent elimination of an interesting edifice which was originally built as a fire house but had been used

Lehigh Avenue is primed to see another addition in the near future, as developers have purchased 2046 E. Lehigh Ave., a building that's been used as an auto shop for the last couple decades. We can't really picture what this corridor was like when the building was constructed around 1950 as a

It's been over a year since we last wrote about 1600 Carpenter St., also known as the Hoa Binh Plaza. For those that don't recall, this property runs all the way to Washington Avenue, but doesn't include the hard corner of 16th & Washington, for whatever reason. A warehouse was constructed

Running between 2nd and 3rd Streets and connected by a pedestrian-only path, Liberties Walk arrived on the scene about fifteen years ago, around the time the Piazza was constructed across the street. It's sort of charming but also kind of disarming, with a Disney-ish prepackaged vibe that never really meshed with