The blocks of Fairmount Avenue closest to the Art Museum have been developed for some time, but property owners are continuing to maintain and improve their buildings. At 2413 Fairmount Ave., a duplex is currently undergoing some minor exterior renovations.2413 Fairmount Ave.If you look at the sales data for some

Two years ago, we first told you about plans for six new homes at the corner of Warnock & Catharine. At that time, a yellow, one-story building stood on this Bella Vista corner. Reader comments suggested, however, that the community wasn't crazy about the proposal, and that it had little

It's been a year since work got started on the new Mormon Temple coming to the huge lot 17th and 18th, Vine and Wood Streets. Back then, all we saw were piles of girders at the site. As the time has passed, we knew that there was action on the

Over the last couple of weeks, we've been clued in by several readers that Burberry, located at 1705 Walnut St., will be closing their doors. While lots of businesses have closed on Walnut Street, only to appear at another location in town, it seems that Burberry is going away and

About a year and a half ago, we looked at two large vacant buildings on Frankford Avenue across the street from Barcade, and wondered when they might be redeveloped. After passing by the other day, we have good news indeed for one of them.For years, 1039-55 Frankford Ave. was a work in

At the beginning of Germantown Avenue, near the I-95 overpass in Northern Liberties, the owner of 1007 Germantown Ave., who has also owned the adjacent parcels for several years, plans to knock down a two-story home and build anew on the rest of his vacant lots.The parcelPaul Stokely, a long-time

In Point Breeze, many long-vacant lots have been turned into community gardens over the years, replacing blight with plantings and greenery. Some of these gardens are carefully maintained once they're established, while others become overgrown after a time. Still others disappear when the vacant lots are redeveloped. At the corner

Considering how much new retail is coming and the increased value of the properties on and near Baltimore Avenue in Clark Park and Cedar Park, it’s surprising that we haven't yet written about the vacant lot at 4829 Baltimore Ave., across the street from Mariposa Co-op.The lotYou may recall, the

It was over a year ago that we first told you about plans for twenty new homes at 826-34 N. 3rd St., a large lot that stretches all the way to Orianna Street. Back then, the developers were still negotiating the finer points of the project with NLNA but aside from

Redevelopment in South Kensington has been all over our board as of late the way Francisville was a year ago. So that has us thinking about this worn two-story building at 1300 N. 4th St. on the northwest corner at 4th & Thompson.Time to be redevelopedThe building features a rusted