Heading down Ridge Avenue the other day, some new construction just south of Girard caught out eye. A new building sits a couple doors down from the Smith Chapel Baptist Church, which is located in the historic former Northwestern National Bank. This area has seen a staggering amount of new

We were traveling through South Philly the other day, when some fresh-looking demolition caught our eye. We didn't have much context for what things looked like before at 1909-13 S. 12th St., but thankfully the Time Machine function in Google Maps was able to help us fill in the blanks.The

For many years, 11th Street Auto Repair, located at the northwest corner of 11th & Christian, was our go-to shop for our car-related needs. Whether it was inspections, an oil change, a flat tire, or a check engine light, this spot was reliable, honest, and generally affordable. We recommended 11th

We last brought 1423 Spruce St. to your attention last October, when we told you that developers were planning to demolish a two-story building and replace it with a seven-story mixed-use project. This plan was complicated by the fact that the property sits in the Rittenhouse Fitler Historic District. Since

Over the last few years, we've seen several underused properties in Chinatown fill in with mid-rise residential development. Back in 2015, we brought your attention to a former surface parking lot at 1031 Spring St., where a steel structure had risen seven stories, in preparation for a new building with

We were looking through the daily zoning report today and discovered some new zoning permits on the 2600 block of Sears Street. This was a delightful find, as nearly an acre has been sitting vacant on this site for at least the last couple decades. A portion of this land

Looking to avoid some traffic on I-76 the other day, we found ourselves in Manayunk, where some ongoing construction at 4050 Main St. caught our eye. The building at this address has been sitting vacant for the last few years, and was most recently home to a furniture store called

While Francisville has changed dramatically over the last decade plus, the northeast corner of 16th & Ogden hasn't changed at all. The property at 849 N. 16th St. has been home to the small congregation, the True Gospel Baptist Church, for a number of years. This church was small indeed,

Twenty years ago, 901 N. Penn St. was a huge vacant lot on the Delaware waterfront which was previously home to Riverfront Restaurant & Dinner Theater and before that, a short-lived old-timey faux-historical concept called Philadelphia 1700. Things changed dramatically in 2004, as work began on Waterfront Square, a five-tower

The saga continues at the northwest corner of 16th & Washington. Let's look back to... good Lord, ELEVEN YEARS AGO, when there was a proposal for the superman-logo-shaped property at 1601 Washington Ave. for a mixed-use building with 35 units over commercial. This project got a zoning variance, but the