
Access to booze is reorganizing in Brewerytown, and MM Partners is unsurprisingly right in the middle of the action. Remember, last year they purchased 2511 W. Girard Ave., the building that was home for many years to a Fine Wine & Good Spirits location. That space became superfluous when a new state store opened on
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Just a few steps away from some skinny new homes under construction on the 2100 block of E. Hagert St., we noticed that the new apartment building at 2431 Frankford Ave. is all finished. We told you about this project almost exactly a year ago, just as site work was getting started. This property
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The SRC had marked the EM Stanton School at 17th & Christian for closure back in 2012, but thanks to the hard work and advocacy of parents, students, and neighbors, the school has remained open. And it's a good thing it did, as Stanton students have performed well academically and along with
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The Market East neighborhood was a hub of commerce in Philadelphia from the late 1800s through the middle of the 20th century, with the Strawbridge & Clothier, Lit Bros., and Gimbels department stores at 8th & Market in the center of it all. By the later part of the 20th
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As we've told you on many prior occasions, 16' is the typical width for a new construction home. From time to time, you'll see wider homes, in the 17' to 20' range, in high end projects in desirable neighborhoods. 15' of width still works for a new home, 14' starts
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Turn back the clock a little more than decade, and the 1000 block of S. 17th Street was an urban wasteland. On both sides of the street, almost every property was either a vacant lot or a blighted building. As the Graduate Hospital neighborhood was gentrifying, these properties were sitting
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On July 14th, we told you that the City was preparing to sell Health Center No. 1 at Broad & Lombard, through an RFP process. This was exciting news, as the property covers roughly 40K sqft of very prime real estate with a favorable zoning designation. Further, the Goldenberg Group owns the former World
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7 August, 2017 | No Comments | Philadelphia
We get lots of random, unsolicited emails, and delete most of them right away. Every now and then though, one of those emails has something juicy and shareworthy, like the email we received earlier today from commercial broker Commercial Cafe. They sent us a link to a video which depicts the
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It seems like every few days, we see a new story about the struggles in Kensington, where there's seemingly no end in sight to the opioid epidemic. Remarkably, East Kensington continues to experience one of the most significant development booms in the city, even though the neighborhood sits, at some
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It was a little over a month ago that we checked in on Liberty Square, the major mixed-use project that's under construction on the property bounded by Germantown Avenue, Thompson Street, and N. American Street. This project, from Blackstone Development, first starting coming together back in 2013, but construction only got started last fall.
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