A long vacant lot at 4050 Haverford Ave. is finally on its way toward redevelopment thanks to the efforts of the People's Emergency Center. You may recall, we've covered the efforts of PEC in West Philly several times in the past, most recently when we told you about their Bigham

Front Street is getting another project, and it's farther north than you'd probably expect. The other day, we found ourselves on Front Street, just north of Norris Street, and we spied a new foundation. 2008-2020 N. Front St. has been sitting vacant for who knows how long, but now developers

Okay, back to Philly real estate.We last visited the somewhat rough 2700 block of W. Stiles Street a few months ago, when we told you about a proposal to demolish a seemingly vacant building on this block and replace it with a duplex. For whatever reason, when the project went

If you enjoy architecture and don't mind twenty-four hours of travel, we'd suggest a trip to Melbourne sometime soon. Right now, Australia's second largest city is experiencing a huge wave of large-scale development, with a new skyscraper seemingly under construction on every block in the CBD. We saw a bunch

Perhaps you've noticed that things have been rather quiet on Naked Philly of late. We do apologize for the paucity of posts, it's entirely due to the fact that Mr. & Mrs. Fox took a little vacation. We've spent the last little while in Australia, where beer does flow and

As the residential landscape of East Kensington changes, so too will the commercial landscape. Already, we're seeing new businesses open on Frankford Avenue in the neighborhood, like a comic shop and a tattoo place that have appeared in recent months on the 2500 block. On Front Street we're seeing positive

For many years, the Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine on South Broad Street has been planning the Cascia Center, "a place of healing, reflection, and assistance for all people." Loosely translated, the facilities at Saint Rita's weren't sufficient to accommodate all of their needs and they require a new building for large

Recently, on a jaunt to East Kensington, we spotted three new homes under construction on the 1900 block of E. Arizona Street. There's a rough-looking one-story building at the end of this block, where it hits Emerald Street, with a homemade street sign that declares this Beer Belly Boulevard. Sounds

Leaving Fishtown the other day after enjoying a delicious Philly Style Bagel, we zipped across Palmer Street into South Kensington and some construction immediately caught our eye. We aren't sure what 1737 N. Howard St. was being used for previously but whatever it was, it isn't being used for that

Pennsport's Mount Sinai Hospital is almost entirely gone. The building had sat vacant for several years while different developers considered various reuse options for the large building at 4th & Reed, but it was the Concordia Group that, in the end, came up with a project for this site that involved demolishing