Naked Philly has been around for awhile now, and it's about time for us to do a little sprucing up. Today, we'll be launching a site redesign that's been over a year in the making. The site will look totally different, and will be much easier to navigate on mobile

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It seems that most of the projects we cover in Pennsport these days are major residential developments. A dozen homes here. Eight homes there. Another ten homes someplace else. But that doesn't mean that smaller projects aren't taking place as well. For example, a reader recently gave us the heads

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It was over two years ago that the former St. Clare’s Monastery was demolished at the corner of Corinthian & W Girard, with plans for some big new buildings to be constructed on the site. Though the developer demolished the old and handsome structures, we learned that they would be

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With development having about filled in Northern Liberties like a full connect four grid with nowhere else to go, we imagine we will see additional small retail spots pop up at different corner locations throughout the neighborhood in the near future. Two years ago, we told you about two vacant commercial

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Perhaps you've wondered about why you've never seen anyone coming or going from the PHA building on the 2000 block of Chestnut Street. Well, pretty soon you'll have to wonder no more. Because if we had to wager, we would bet that the building will be torn down in the

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On the southwest corner of Broad & Somerset, pretty much between Temple University and Temple Hospital, sits a very cool building. A couple of years ago, it contained a kitchen supply store and looked pretty awful. More recently, Broad Street Beer Distributor opened here, and cleaned up the building some.

Clearly,

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A couple of weeks ago, we told you about a new coat of paint at 20th & South, where Philly Cupcake had recently shut its doors after less than a year in business. At that time, we wondered how long it would take for the landlords to find a new

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Over the summer, we looked at the history of 615 S. 6th St., most recently known as the Antiquarian's Delight. If you pass by this building, you don't have to look to carefully to notice that it wasn't always a flea market. Even if you can't read Hebrew, you can

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Azalea Gardens, a graduate student housing complex, is the latest proposal in a long-contested battle over how to redevelop a historic Italianate mansion located at 400 S. 40th St., which is owned by Penn.

Last month, developers from Equinox Management and Construction presented preliminary plans to preserve the mansion, knock down

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Two and a half years ago, we wondered who would buy and redevelop 1843-45 E. Passyunk Ave., the longtime home of King of Jeans. A year later, we shared the news that developer Max Glass had purchased the property, and along with crowning himself the new King of Jeans, intended to

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