If you ran Broad Street on Sunday, and you're a tourist, perhaps you made your way to Pat's or Geno's to reload after your triumphant ten mile run. If you did indeed visit either establishment over the weekend, it's possible you noticed some relatively new 'For Sale' signs in the immediate vicinity.We've covered both of these

The W.G. Schweiker building is one of our favorite buildings in town, even though it's been sitting blighted and vacant for as long as we can remember. According to @mal19104 on Instagram, the building dates back to the turn of the 20th century, and once housed a roofing and construction business

If you've driven, biked, or walked over the South Street Bridge in the last year and a half or so, you've surely noticed the slow but steady pace of construction, as the first of four new CHOP buildings has risen on Schuylkill Avenue. And if you've traveled on the bridge in the

Though it looked like a foregone conclusion that it would close, the Acme on 5th Street may yet survive. For those that haven't been following the story, Alterra Property Group put the property at 309 S. 5th St. under agreement in the spring of 2015 with an eye toward demolishing the market and building a mixed-use

Apparently 332-34 W. Girard Ave. was a pizza shop called P&S Pizza once upon a time, but we cannot remember a time that it was in business in the last decade. In our memory, this property has just been sitting empty, slowly looking worse as the years have passed. Chipped paint, a

Toward the end of last year, we visited the 2400 block of W. Thompson St. to tell you about a property on the block that was listed for sale. We believed that 2414 W. Thompson St. was a little overpriced at $125K but suggested that the block had potential and a buyer

Last week, we told you about plans for five new homes on the north side of Cecil B. Moore Avenue, on a parcel that runs from Howard to Hope Street. Unfortunately, it wasn't until a few days later that a reader notified us about a few zoning notices just steps away

It's been a rough decade for the neighbors on the 700 block of S. 2nd Street, as 718-24 S. 2nd St. has provided intermittent construction aggravation and a near permanent eyesore for almost all of those years. We first brought these properties to your attention in the summer of 2011, wondering

03Philadelphia is a city of neighborhoods. But when you think about it, the divisions between those neighborhoods are sometimes quite arbitrary. For example, why does the Graduate Hospital neighborhood run from Broad Street to the river, but the same footprint on the other side of Broad Street include three different

The Royal Theater, located at 1524 South St., should be a sparkling gem in the middle of the continually improving South Street West commercial corridor. Instead, the building has been a millstone for the 1500 block of South Street, as it has been sitting vacant for decades. Some history: the building was