There aren't so many immediately recognizable development opportunities in Center City, but last year, a sign at 251 N. 12th St. really drove the point home.We brought this property to your attention, encouraging anyone and everyone to buy it and build something. The property has some good things going for it, like

The saga of Triangle Park has seemingly come to an end after quite a long time. For those of you that haven't been following the situation at the triangular lot at 601 Christian St. over the years, here's a brief rundown:Historically, this 2,600 sqft property was home to a gas station, though

Carburetor is one of those words we've probably heard hundreds of times over the years and while we knew it was somehow related to car engines, we confess we had no concept of its function. But we live in the age of information, and thanks to Wikipedia, we now know that

It wasn't so long ago that the section of Pennsport immediately surrounding Dickinson Square Park was a little on the dicey side, with several blighted buildings and vacant lots on the blocks immediately to the north and west of the park. Virtually all of those properties have been redeveloped over the last

If you just bought a mansion on Pine Street and are finding yourself a little short on original interior details, the folks at Architectural Antiques Exchange can probably help. Since the late 1970s, this place has specialized in antique pieces that date back as far as the 1700s, just in case your

For whatever reason, we tend to take 27th Street to get to Brewerytown. Our landmark for entering the neighborhood is the enormous vacant lot that stretches almost from Polar Street to Girard Avenue, and also a somewhat unusual looking home on the west side of the street. We wrote about 924

Intuitively, you might expect that the block of 50th Street south of Baltimore Avenue would be a solid block, with a mix of housing and retail runoff from the commercial corridor. And you'd be correct! What's somewhat surprising though, is that this situation is a relatively recent development. If we

Graduate Hospital has experienced a nearly complete transformation over the last twenty years, from a neighborhood with over five hundred vacant lots and buildings to a neighborhood today where developers have eliminated almost every vacancy. The neighborhood has become safer, the schools have improved, and businesses have filled in within

We couldn't tell you what purpose 334 N. 13th St. was originally built for, all we know is that this two story building has been home to a custom framing business for many years. At some point in its history, its windows were either eliminated or greatly reduced in size, but the

If you haven't gone past the intersection of 22nd & South recently, you might not realize that a new five-story building is making some nice progress on the northeast corner. 2145 South St. was home to Omega Pizza for more years than we can remember, offering the rare combination of mediocre pizza