When we shared the news yesterday that the building at 208-12 N. 21st St., formerly home to the Please Touch Museum, would be demolished, many people commented with disappointment that this excellent building will soon be lost. At the time that we wrote the story, we didn't know much about the project

Last year, we were tipped off about a pretty cool project happening in Manyunk regarding the second half of a two-building nineteenth century mill complex known as the Shurs Lane Mills. We got in touch with the developers who were willing to give us a tour of the building mid-construction.

Though Frankford Avenue is just a few steps away in South Kensington, a section of Front Street is beginning to reassert its long lost status as a commercial corridor. Just a couple of years ago, the intersection of Front & Master was home to just one business, the El Bar. On

When we last visited the one-story commercial building at 723 N. 6th St. in January, snow covered the ground and new owners were preparing for their first presentation to the community. Their plans called for the demolition of the building and the construction of a five-story structure with 30 apartments

When we last visited the corner of 21st & Race a little less than a year ago, developers were just getting started on the second quartet of homes making up the Eight on Race development. That project entailed the demolition of a former School District building (which we don't regret)

At first glance, and honestly at second glance too, the 2100 block of E. Dakota St. doesn't exactly seem like a wonderful place to build new homes. The narrow street feels like an alleyway, with mostly backyards from buildings on Arizona and Dauphin Streets. But if you consider the pace

Point Breeze Avenue has seen incremental improvement over the last few years, as new homes have sprouted in the surrounding neighborhood. OCF Coffee House opened a few years ago at the top of the commercial corridor, taking a space in a renovated building which had been blighted for many years.

To the east of Front Street, Fishtown continues to flourish. Ditto South Kensington to the west. As a result, developers continue to look to Front Street even though the El continues to rumble across the elevated tracks every day and night. A couple years ago, we told you about plans

Last fall, we told you about two new homes from Callahan Ward on the 1900 block of E. Cumberland Street, about a block off of Kensington Avenue. Since it was a by-right project, the developers didn't have any renderings for the homes, so you needed to use some imagination to

We've had a couple of readers reach out to us in the last few weeks, wondering about construction at 2318 E. York St., a corner lot that functioned for many years as a side yard for lovely old brownstone.In the pastCurrent view of the propertyDevelopers bought the property about a