A word to the wise; most of the food trucks on Temple's campus shut down during winter break. Of course, this makes sense, as profitability tends to plummet when your entire customer base disappears. But it's been a minute since we've been in college, so the whole winter break thing

Just last week, we were discussing a six home project on the 1300 block of N. 27th Street, excited that these homes were filling in a lot that had been sitting vacant for a long while. We didn't know it at the time, but it turns out there are a

We were making our way through Old City the other day and it struck us that a new building had sprouted on the 100 block of N. 2nd Street, seemingly overnight. Okay, overnight is a bit of an exaggeration, but it's undeniable that the progress at The National project at 109-131

On a spring day earlier this year, when we were surely more successful in feeling our fingers, we brought 2101 Reed St. to your attention, noting that the small, triangular property was listed for rent for $1,800/month. We discussed the challenges that a business might experience in this particular building at this

Recent years have brought numerous changes to 31st Street in Brewerytown, and additional changes are in the works. On the 1400 block alone we can point to three different projects, two of which wrapped up this year, with a third just getting started. The completed projects include the Annex @

A sign caught our eye the other day at the southeast corner of 2nd & Cecil B Moore, posted to a building that was at one time home to a restaurant called the Play Pen. We couldn't tell you how long it's been since the restaurant was in active use,

We were zipping around Brewerytown the other day, following up on some reader tips, when a sign caught our eye at the northeast corner of 27th & Thompson. The sign is posted on a building that has wonderful bones and was probably amazing in its day, but vinyl siding on

It's been over half a year since we last checked in on the Lincoln Square project on the northwest corner of Broad & Washington. A reminder, this project will eventually include 322 apartments, over 100K sqft of retail space, and more than 400 parking spots. A mini-Target and a Petsmart are

When a reader tipped us off about a five-home project on the 500 block of Hoffman Street a couple years back, we're embarrassed to say that we didn't even know where to find the street on the map. Through the power of a quick internet search though, we discovered that

Last week, we told you about a student housing project that should soon get started on the 1000 block of S. 51st St., and we made a big deal out of the fact that developers believed that tenants would be willing to cross the Media/Elwyn rail tracks to get home at