Via Bicycle made its home at 606 S. 9th St. for about 20 years, but from the looks of the outside or the inside, you might have guessed they'd been there five times as long. But if you pass by this address today, you'll see that the shop is no

We've increasingly found ourselves commenting on the spread of East Kensington development toward Lehigh Avenue over the last year or so, just as we've started traveling more frequently across Lehigh to report on projects in Port Richmond. With more and more projects getting closer and closer to Lehigh Avenue, it

Snockey's Oyster House was one of the most fabled restaurants in Philadelphia, serving seafood to the masses since 1912. It was with heavy hearts that the Snock family closed the business at the end of 2015, but according to Philly.com, it was an aging ownership and a younger generation not

Back in the fall of 2013, developers proposed a plan to demolish an old building that had been home to a plumbing business at 428 E. Wildey St. and replace it with a twelve unit apartment building. Apparently the community wasn't into the idea, opposing it at an FNA zoning

The former Pearl Arts at 417 South St. has basically been in a state of flux since the arts and crafts supply store closed its doors back in 2011. Roughly three years ago, we heard about a plan to convert the building into 85 artist studios with prices starting at $250/month for

La Milagrosa was a center for the Catholic Hispanic community for roughly a century at 1903 Spring Garden St. before it closed its doors back in the summer of 2013. At the time, we weren't sure what would ultimately happen to the building but we speculated that it would be

We don't get to Parkside very often, mostly because it's a bit of a hike for us and there's just not that much development to report in the neighborhood. But a reader gave us a shout the other day and told us about some construction activity at 52nd & Parkside,

Scoops is exactly the kind of business you wish you had around the corner from your house. It's got delicious ice cream and snacks, low prices, and the owners have been in the neighborhood forever. With their building at 812 E. Thompson St. selling last year though, it could be

The controversy sparked by a Toll Brothers plan to demolish a row of buildings on the eastern side of Jewelers Row could encourage a different developer to move forward more aggressively with another development on this corridor. In case you haven't been following the saga, Toll Brothers owns 702-710 Sansom

We're pretty sure that the building at 1132 N. Front St. was originally part of the Dougherty distillery, which operated on this block through the beginning of the 20th century, according to Hidden City. In later years, the building was used as a spice factory, though for at least the last