We had a meeting in Northern Liberties this morning, and after it wrapped up we were scrounging around the neighborhood, thinking about grabbing a bite to eat. Heading up 3rd Street, we were momentarily distracted from our belly rumblings by a fresh looking demolition notice. The industrial building at 952-56

It wasn't that long ago that construction on Amber Street in East Kensington was cause for celebration, a sign that development in Fishtown was spreading to the other side of Frankford Avenue. Today though? Amber Street is so 2011. As we've told you time and again, development has spread throughout

As Northern Liberties was home to countless manufacturing interests back in the day, it makes sense that several breweries once populated the neighborhood. Schmidt's was an especially large and famous brewery which continued to operate through the late 1980s. Then it sat vacant for over a decade, until Tower Investments bought the

The 1400 block of N. Myrtlewood Street has had a pretty tough run in recent years. According to public record, there are 56 properties on the block and as far as we can tell, nearly half of those properties have been sitting vacant for a number of years. Along with

Yards Brewery splintered in 2007, with the newly spawned Philadelphia Brewing Company taking over the former Weisbrod & Hess building in East Kensington, and Yards opening a new brewing facility at 901 N. Delaware Ave. after a serious buildout effort. Now here we are, nearly a decade later, and both companies

The Corn Exchange National Bank building has always been one of our favorites, both because of its impressive Neo-Classical architectural design and our desperate desire to open an account at an institution with such an amazing name. Alas, there hasn't been a corn bank in Philadelphia for decades, leaving our dreams

A few readers have reached out to us over the last few weeks, passing along the news that construction is finally moving forward at Graduate Square. What is Graduate Square? We're glad you asked.The folks at Hightop Real Estate & Development have been working on this project, located at 2501

Perhaps you recall, we told you a few weeks ago about a mansion at 113 Bainbridge St. that will soon be going up for auction. To satisfy both potential buyers and the hordes of real estate bloggers in this town, Max Spann Auction House held a couple of open house events for

It took us three tries to correctly type Coral & Firth and not Colin & Firth in the title of this post, and even now, looking at Coral & Firth, it just looks wrong. We're going to try to get this right throughout, but if we have a slip up,

Germantown Avenue in South Kensington has experienced tremendous change over the last several years, with the 1400 block seeing the bulk of the construction activity. And as we've told you previously, there's still more to come for that block, with the most notable projects being an adaptive reuse that will