After unsuccessful stints as a real estate agent, a car salesman, and a mall santa, 'ol Gil finally found a business that worked for him, holding down the southwest corner of 11th & McKean for several years with a successful wholesaling business. Many businesses and organizations patronized Gil's Wholesale, getting their

We've gotten regular emails over the last couple months from people wondering about 1807 Washington Ave., a building that's been under construction for quite some time and has a liquor license posting in the window. In its previous life, the building was home to a restaurant called Tasty Asia which

If developers and the community can get onto the same page, South Kensington could soon see another big project arrive on the scene. Currently, 1712-28 N. 2nd St. is home to a large one-story industrial building and a similarly sized vacant lot that's about 25% filled with junky cars. If

Though it's located in one of the most established parts of town, the 3rd & Market intersection has been in a major state of flux over the last few years. As recently as 2011, you could find a cell phone store, a shirt store, a suit store, and a long-tenured

We first visted the 1500 block of Parrish Street over five years ago, when we shared the news that the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale planned to buy a warehouse at 1521 Parrish St. and make their home there, moving from a space near Drexel's campus. Part of that plan

We were scanning the zoning calendar the other day, and discovered some upcoming development planned for the 1900 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue. Currently, 1913-1919 Cecil B. Moore Ave. is a vacant lot that's about 6,000 sqft in size with mixed-use zoning. Developers purchased the property a few years

One of our first predictions for 2017 was that North Broad Street would take a major step forward this year, and it didn't even take two weeks for news to emerge that supports this expectation. Hey, when you're good, you're good.Yesterday, Philadelphia Business Journal published a story (behind a pay wall)

We've had a couple of readers reach out over the last month or two, wondering about the huge property at 59 Leverington Ave., where a building that had been home to a kennel and perhaps more famously Rambo's Ice House, was recently demolished. This property is in a curious location,

Over the summer, we heard from a reader in South Kensington that developers had purchased a former church on the 1200 block of N. Hancock Street. When we trekked over there, we found a nice enough looking building at 1217 N. Hancock St. that seemed like it would lend itself

We've had a bit of a fixation with the property at 1804 E. Passyunk Ave., first writing about it five years ago, encouraging anybody and everybody to lease the large property in the heart of the Passyunk Avenue commercial corridor. The building had been home to a pharmacy for years,