This may set a record for quickest followup post ever on Naked Philly, but here goes anyway.Yesterday, we shared the good news that construction was underway for Bloc23, a four-story condo building at 23rd & Bainbridge. We were excited because the project has been in the works for several years

We were cruising through East Kensington today and came upon a significant construction site where Hagert Street meets Emerald Street, in a sea of huge vacant lots. We quickly realized that we've actually covered this project before, though it was over two years ago.Construction siteAt that time, the plans for

Raise your hand if you hate surface parking lots in downtown Philadelphia.<looking around> Good, us too.It's with no sadness then, that we share the news that a new project will soon replace the surface parking lot at 519-23 Bainbridge St., a property that stretches all the way to Kater Street.View on

Crossing the Walnut Street Bridge, you quickly notice two of the newer buildings to join Philadelphia's skyline. And really, they're just two parts of the same project.FMC plus EvoFMC Tower at Cira Centre South is the one with frontage on Walnut Street and it's more easily identified as the one

The block of Grays Ferry Avenue between South and Bainbridge has seen some wonderful changes in recent years. Most notably, a pedestrian plaza has claimed a section of the street for humans, creating a vibrant public space that's used all year long. Businesses like Igloo and Green Aisle Grocery have

If you've driven on I-76 West in the last few months, you've probably noticed that a large new building under construction as you approach Manayunk. A big building like this, you'd think we'd have been covering it since jump street, but it somehow escaped our attention. Last week, we took

Three years ago, we wondered about a shed on the 1200 block of Fitzwater Street, next door to the Hawthorne Lofts. The condo building next door, remember, was once a school that was converted into low-income housing in the 1980s. The Rufo Company converted the property into market-rate condos a

Back in the day (about 15 years ago), when there were over a thousand vacant lots and buildings in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood, 908 S. 21st St. kind of blended in with its surroundings. As the neighborhood has improved and vacant lots and buildings have disappeared, this building's condition has

If you drive from river to river on Poplar Street, you can see redevelopment trends across various Philadelphia neighborhoods. In Northern Liberties, Front & Poplar was mostly open space as recently as a few years ago, but is now mostly new residential units. In Francisville, at 19th & Poplar, nearly the entire

The corner of 2nd & Church has gone from empty to bustling over the last few months. We first brought the building at 17-19 N. 2nd St. to your attention back in the summer of 2012, wondering how such a well-located structure could sit vacant for so many years. On