We took advantage of the amazing weather on Saturday and visited the Christmas Village on a preview day, and you know we knocked down a waffle within minutes of our arrival. And somehow, we refrained from purchasing anything else. Next time perhaps we won't be so lucky. Afterward, trying to spend

Fishtown keeps improving and as the neighborhood grows, people are more and more willing to live at addresses that were previously considered to be undesirable. We've seen all kinds of projects cropping up on Front Street, for example, despite the frequent rumble of the El. Similarly, we've seen several projects

We've visited Marshall Street between Poplar and Girard a couple times over the years and have seen some major improvement in a very short amount of time. As we've told you before, this street was the heart of the Jewish pushcart market back in the early 1900s but has been

We were winding our way through South Kensington yesterday, fighting the early setting sun, and happened upon a pair of new homes on the 1400 block of N. Lawrence Street. Previously, 1428 and 1430 N. Lawrence St. were sitting vacant, even though most of the rest of this block is

Raise your hand if you've walked or driven past McGarry's at 2nd & Wood a hundred times over the years and assumed it was an Irish pub despite the signage clearly showing that it's a jewelry store. Uh, that's us raising our hand too. So yeah, McGarry's is a jewelry

We've had an eye on the southwest corner of Broad & Ellsworth for years, wondering when and if this large vacant South Broad Street property would get filled in. You may remember, the adjacent Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine owns the property and has been looking to expand there for quite some time,

We've seen our share of shows at The Fire at 410-412 W. Girard Ave. over the years, though we confess we haven't set foot inside for quite some time. The famed establishment spans two buildings, with one of the rooms containing a traditional neighborhood bar and the other side featuring

It's been about a year since we checked in on the northwest corner of 17th & Annin, so how 'bout an update? A year ago, this corner was home to a white warehouse that was growing more and more out of place as residential development proliferated throughout the neighborhood. It

The South Philly Food Co-op has spent several years organizing and recruiting member-owners with the goal of opening a grocery store in ('natch) South Philadelphia. More recently, the leaders of this organization have been actively searching for a location for the co-op, working to find a relatively inexpensive space that

Turning back the clock a couple of decades, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood had well over a thousand vacant lots and buildings literally littering the area. The 2100 block of Carpenter Street was among the worst in the neighborhood. In 2004, at least thirty out of forty-seven properties on the block were