For a couple of years now, we've beaten the drum hard for South Street West. And why not? The corridor has improved by leaps and bounds, with new businesses opening, old buildings getting fixed up, and new structures rising. From a culinary standpoint, it has exploded, with the new additions

Just east of Broad Street, we were surprised and also not surprised to find new construction in the form of a two-story addition being built onto an existing one-story building on the northeast corner of Poplar & Watts.

The addition at 1335-37 Poplar St. will create two apartments above an existing

We were in the neighborhood the other day and passed by the Independence Press Building at 11th & Green. For what felt like the hundredth time, we thought to ourselves how great it would be if this place would get rehabbed already. Earlier this year when we told you about

We were in the area the other day and noticed that two new foundations have appeared on the northwest corner of 20th & Wharton. You may recall (though we forgot), we wrote about this project about a year ago, after the developer presented to the community.

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In case you don't recall,

Back in September, we gave you an update on the progress of the new OCF Cafe at 2100 Fairmount Ave., across the street from the Eastern State Penitentiary. At the time, we indicated an expected opening date of mid-October, in time to take advantage of the crowds that descend upon the

A year and a half ago, we brought you the news that the lease would soon expire for the Dollar General at 23rd & South. Yet with 2012 having come and gone, and over half of 2013 now expired, the store persists, as it has for many years. So... what

It’s no secret that Fishtown has been one of the up-and-coming neighborhoods in Philadelphia for awhile now. But despite the new businesses and homes popping up in Fishtown, East Kensington, South Kensington, Olde Richmond, etc, some folks are still skeptical about the area. To address this, the New Kensington Community Development