In a pocket of Logan Square best known for museums and an expansive Whole Foods, the Reading Company Grain Elevator at 411 N. 20th St. sticks out like a historically designated sore thumb. Per Workshop of the World, this building was constructed in 1925 as a storage facility for grain that came in

At the northeast corner of 28th & Girard in Brewerytown, a corner building with a very noticeable facade stands out from the other buildings on the block. This old edifice, which has been in use as a daycare center and four apartments for the last couple decades, has seen a

West Philadelphia has a reputation for terrific architecture, and deservedly so. As long as you're west of the Schuylkill, you never have to walk too far if you want to drink in Victorian mansions that have remarkably withstood the ravages of the last century plus. While certain blocks can boast

With development pressure coming up from Center City and down from Temple, North Broad Street has made some incredible strides in the last decade. Two of the most prominent shifts on this corridor have occurred at the Broad & Spring Garden intersection, with Tower's conversion of the Pennsylvania State Office Building into

McGarry's Jewelers is an amazing local business success story. They've been operating since 1854, and that was so long ago that Old City was just known as "City" back then. Over the course of their history, we imagine they had a few different locations, and as far as we can tell they

We have mixed emotions about the 800 block of Kimball Street. On the positive side of the ledger, it's located right off the Italian Market and anyone that lives there has easy access to inexpensive produce and tasty meats and cheeses. The other end of the block however, always feels a

Developers prefer to build homes on lots that are at least sixteen feet wide, but we live in an imperfect world. A narrower home often means a reduced sale price, but assuming the purchase price is correspondingly lessened, developers will still look to buy and build on skinnier lots. When East

Philadelphia has more history than most cities in America, but even its oldest neighborhoods aren't frozen in time. From a real estate perspective, that generally means that old buildings get torn down and replaced by shiny new structures. Sometimes though, we see older buildings preserved, with their use and appearance evolving over the

Walnut Street is a central artery in Philadelphia, as it has been since before our parents' parents' parents were born. It was around that time, now that we think about it, that numerous mansions sprung up along Walnut Street, providing wealthy Philadelphia families with well-located and handsomely designed abodes. Some

The gentrification wave that's crashed over the Graduate Hospital neighborhood over the last twenty years has radically transformed the area. Before this surge, Grad Hospital included over a thousand vacant lots and empty buildings, but at this point you don't have to go much beyond your fingers and toes to count every such property in