It's no secret that development in Fishtown and East Kensington has been quite strong in recent years, evident from that fact that we're generally covering something in one of those neighborhoods every few days. As those neighborhoods have become more saturated with projects, and as prices have slowly (or quickly)

Development has claimed another victim in East Kensington, and this time it's a vacant lot on the 2400 block of Coral Street. This isn't our first visit to this block- when we last visited about a year and a half ago, we spied three homes under construction from BMK Homes

Ridiculous light masts aside, the last few years have been very very good to North Broad Street. We've actually lost count of the number of buildings that have been repurposed as apartments, adding new residents and a vibrancy that had been missing here for decades. The lastest addition to the

As recently as five years ago, the south side of Oxford Street between Howard and Mascher Streets was a large vacant lot, and the building immediately to the east was home to a lamp factory that looked like crap. What a difference a few years has made for this small

We last checked in on the Ingersoll Commons project about a year and a half ago, when construction fences had just appeared at a long-vacant lot at 16th & Master. This lot had been owned by City agencies since the 1980s, and a few years back Community Ventures was selected as

People have been buzzing about Philly Style Bagels ever since they started doing pop-ups on Sunday mornings at Pizzeria Beddia. But we never got to sample the goods because they always sold out before we found our way over there. But now they've opened a retail operation at 1451 E.

This past week we checked out some interesting but slightly confusing development activity at 917 Arch St. thanks to a reader tip. This building definitely has some history, having been home to Stewart, Ralph & Company about a hundred years ago, and also housing the Asam Brothers wallpaper warehouse for a stretch.

If you visited the intersection of 7th & Fairmount just a couple of years ago, you would have discovered a vacant one-story commercial building on the northeast corner and a fenced-in parking lot on the northwest corner. Today it's a different story, with Federal Donuts having taken over the aforementioned commercial

Maybe you love surface parking lots, but if you're a regular reader of this blog you know we aren't into 'em. So we rejoiced a couple years back, when Parkway Corporation, one of the biggest parking lot owners in Philadelphia, partnered with the Hanover Company with plans to redevelop two

When we learned, a couple years back, that the Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ had moved from their longtime home at 1401 Marlborough St. and placed their property on the market, we immediately suspected that developers would step in with a proposal for demolishing the church and replacing it with