If you live in the Spring Garden or Francisville neighborhoods, you've surely noticed the former Mortgage Security Trust Company building on the corner of 18th & Fairmount. Heck, we don't live in either neighborhood and it caught our attention over three years ago. Back then, we plead to the cosmos

It's always interesting for us to take the long view of development and observe how projects wind their way from concept to reality (or not reality for projects that fall through). Having done this for a few years now, we have the benefit of digital hindsight to help us remember

At the bottom of Fabric Row, at 4th & Queen, a collection of buildings are under construction as part of a project that's transforming a long-lousy corner. Previously, the southwest corner of this intersection contained a collection of stucco-covered buildings that were probably quite old, but altered beyond recognition from

It's been many months since we checked on the Folsom Powerhouse project in Francisville, and there's been plenty of progress at the site since our last visit. Remember, the first phase of this project from Equinox Management & Construction and Postgreen Homes included the construction of seven buildings- three townhomes and four duplexes. All of those

Over the weekend, we got a tip from a reader about 2028-34 Rittenhouse Sq., which is currently used as a parking garage.The buildingThe three story building looks like it was once a warehouse of some kind, though we couldn't tell you exactly what it was originally built for. Over the

Last year the Community Design Collaborative launched the Soak It Up contest to challenge design and sustainability professionals to create new plans to renovate or overhaul an industrial, commercial, or retail site. The point was innovation, and the use of sustainable technology.So designers reimagined an industrial site at 8th & Dauphin and a

It wasn't so long ago that we first told you about plans to demolish engineering labs at 34th & Lancaster and replace them with a large mixed-use student housing building, ostensibly for Drexel kids. About a year ago, those efforts got underway and when we checked back here in January the

Almost three years ago, we first brought you to the corner where Titan Street hits Point Breeze Avenue, to a large parcel that's been vacant for many years. We shared, with excitement, plans for the redevelopment of this lot with a new mixed-use building. We wondered if this development, with thirteen

In February of 2012, we mentioned 932 Arch St. as an aside in a story about a project across the street. At that time, the property, which has a hair salon on the first floor, had received a five-story cinderblock addition. Previously, this was just a very deep one-story building.Back

Earlier this week, we updated you on the three-story building that's currently under construction at 15th & Walnut. As we told you, the steel for the building looks to be wrapping up.Current viewAfter our post went up, a representative from architects Bohlin Cywinski Jackson reached out and provided us with an updated