It was just a couple years ago that the Summit at University City sprouted on the 3400 block of Lancaster Avenue, replacing a couple of low slung institutional buildings with a massive mixed-use building targeting Drexel students. We don't need to tell you that this building was transformative for the

Fleisher Art Memorial is one of Philadelphia's hidden treasures, tucked away in a former church on the 700 block of Catharine Street. For those unfamiliar with this fabulous institution, Fleisher is one of the oldest non-profit community art schools in America and holds free and low cost classes and workshops

It seems like just yesterday that we first called your attention to 538 Federal St., a building that was constructed about a hundred years ago as a substation for the Philadelphia Electric Company (we call it PECO today). For the sake of nostalgia and as evidence of its former use,

When PHA built and sold a collection of low slung affordable housing units on the southern side of Francisville in the early 1980s, they surely didn't anticipate that these homes would become incredibly hot commodities to market rate developers several decades later. Slowly, over the course of the last few

Stormwater management is important in Philadelphia. The more stormwater we're able to trap in the ground before it enters the sewer system, the less likely it becomes for stormwater and diluted sewage to overflow into local rivers and streams. We haven't been so good with this historically, but the Philadelphia

A reader emailed us the other day, wondering about zoning notices they'd spied on the 1700 block of Brandywine Street. We were excited to hear about this, as the north side of this block is dominated by a large surface parking lot and is zoned for multi-family use, so we

About half a year ago, we called your attention to the slow and methodical demolition of Penn Tower, at the intersection where HUP meets CHOP meets the Penn Museum. As we told you previously, Penn Tower was originally built as a hotel but slowly transitioned to a HUP office building.

The Mid-Century Furniture Warehouse is located at the corner of 2nd & Cecil B. Moore and holds biweekly furniture sales, offering a collection of "professionally restored American Mid-Century, and Scandinavian furniture" in a spacious and unheated warehouse. We've been meaning to check it out for quite some time and finally made

We've been keeping an eye on the area east of Fishtown, on the other side of Aramingo Avenue, for over a year now, waiting for others to discover that Olde Richmond is the new, uh, East Kensington? This part of town has seen the occasional project over the years, but

To the surprise of few and the chagrin of many, we now find ourselves in an era of wholesale church demolition. And we've lost some fabulous buildings in just the last few years, like the Pilgrim Congressional United Church of Christ in Fishtown, Saint Bonaventure in Fairhill, and New Hope Temple