It's been a sorry state of affairs at the Grays Ferry Shopping Center for the last year or so. Ever since the Grays Ferry Pathmark closed its doors at the end of 2015, the shopping center, located on the 2800 block of Grays Ferry Avenue, has been sitting more vacant

We were making our way through Francisville the other day and a seemingly new chain link fence caught our attention at the corner of 16th & Cambridge. The 'Work in Progress' signs on the fence are a pretty good indication that something will soon be happening here.Chain link fenceBefore we

As Philadelphia development has boomed in the last decade or so, we've seen major changes in several neighborhoods, like Point Breeze, Francisville, and East Kensington, for example. In each of those neighborhoods and a few others, new construction has filled in vast swaths of vacant land, and developers have repaired

A couple of readers have reached out in recent weeks, wondering about some recent demolition on the south side of the 900 block of Callowhill Street. The property at 900 Callowhill St. was previously populated by a collection of one-story warehouses that were used for the storage and sale of

We've drawn your attention to Ridge Avenue several times over the last few years, as developers have built new buildings on properties that were sitting vacant and/or blighted for as long as anyone could remember. A fine example of this phenomenon can be found at 1526-30 Ridge Ave., where developers

We were meandering around South Philly earlier today and were stopped dead in our tracks by an unexpected sign in the window of 1352-56 E. Passyunk Ave., a building that was most recently home to a Rita's Water Ice but has been vacant for a couple of years. Other people might

Lots of things have happened since the summer, when we told you about plans from Toll Brothers to demolish five buildings at 702-710 Sansom St. on Jewelers Row and build a 16 story mixed-use building in their place. There was a petition organized to oppose the project that was signed

Student housing has boomed across many sections of West Philadelphia, with tons of new buildings rising in Mantua in recent years. The construction has slowly crept northward, but it hasn't yet made its way to Ogden Street, where we will draw your gaze on this rainy afternoon. This part of

We featured the building at 1516 Green St. as our blight of the week in March of 2013, wondering how this wonderful building had fallen on such hard times. Doing some research, we quickly realized that it was under the careful watch of the Philadelphia Housing Authority that the building

The W.S. Peirce School, located at 2400 Christian St., was built in 1928-29 and designed by Irwin T. Catharine in the Late Gothic Revival-style. Catharine, who wasn't the namesake for Catharine Street despite the spelling of his name, was the chief architect for Philadelphia public schools in the 1920s and 30s and