We were peering at the L&I Map last week, and that's how we discovered the plans to demolish the warehouse at 30th & Thompson and replace it with a 40-unit apartment building. Shortly before or after, we spied some additional permits on the 2900 block of Master Street and figured

If you try to travel down 24th Street this week, south of South Street, you will run into a bit of a problem. And by a problem, we mean a massive crane lifting pods onto a steel-framed structure at the corner of 24th & Bainbridge.Looking down 24th StreetThe project in

A little over a year ago, we traveled out to Walnut Hill in West Philadelphia to tell you about a derelict apartment building getting a makeover at 51st & Walnut. The building was vacant for a pretty long time and had garnered a whole lot of damage from graffiti, the weather,

We'd like to think we've set foot on just about every block in greater Center City, but we confess that today might have been our first time at 5th & Wood. And this makes some sense. From a driving perspective, the 5th Street tunnel takes you past this corner, popping

It's pretty remarkable that we're seeing so much redevelopment on Front Street, and it's even more impressive that the projects have tracked so far to the north. Earlier this year, we told you about some new foundations at 2008 N. Front St. and told you to expect a building with

In the summer of 2013, we told you about a one-story warehouse at 2940 W. Thompson St., and expressed that it would be an attractive real estate investment. We weren't so enthralled with the building itself, we instead imagined the building's demolition and 7 new townhomes or a creative multi-family

With the hulking former umbrella factory sitting blighted and vacant for many years at the corner of 5th & Master, the vacant lots at 1431-33 N. 5th St. probably weren't of much interest to developers. And we can appreciate why people would have balked at the idea of investing money

Ah, Snyder Plaza. You love that it's there when you need to make a Target run or you want to take your weepy four year to Chuck E. Cheese's, but deep down you hate it because of the awful traffic flow and the fact that it doesn't even remotely relate

We've visited the blocks around the 40th & Baring intersection perhaps a dozen times over the years, regularly providing updates on this booming part of Mantua. Way back in 2011, some new apartment buildings had recently finished in the north side of the 4000 block of Baring Street, with a

A couple of readers have urged us to revisit the booming 2200 block of Wilder Street in recent weeks, but that pesky early setting sun foiled us a couple times before we could get some decent images of what's happening. You may recall, we first visited this block back in