Last March, we wondered about the status of 2200 Saint Albans Street, home to a check cashing store and long a nuisance property in the neighborhood. The property was on the market for a hot minute, and was promptly sold, but not before it experienced a break-in and the theft

Just last week, we told you about Cambridge Row, a partnership between Fairmount CDC and local developer MM Partners to purchase a number of PHA properties, rehab them, and sell them on the open market. This project will be taking place on the 2700-3000 blocks of Cambridge Street, and will

In 1903, architect Lloyd Titus designed a building at 7th & Lehigh for the Northeast Manual Training School, using what the PhillyHistory Blog calls a “Collegiate Gothic Revival” style. The mostly three-story building looked like it arrived preassembled from Europe, with towers and gargoyles and carvings and two stone lions guarding the

The Navy Yard is becoming an extension of Philadelphia's core, both due to its location just south of the stadiums and the growing number of businesses calling it home. That being said, its size means that there's still plenty of untapped potential for the site. Last year, a few new businesses made

We were waaay up in North Philadelphia today, snapping some photos for another post (that you should totally look for tomorrow), and spotted a couple of new construction homes as we were weaving our way back down toward Center City. Back in 2009, 2106-08 N. 17th St. (just above Diamond)

Last spring, we told you about plans to build an addition on the top of 1025 Arch St., just down the street from Reading Terminal Market and the unfortunate Home2 Suites hotel. As you can see in the photo below, this addition has, in fact, taken place, though work probably isn't

The plot between Walnut, Sansom, 6th and 7th Streets is occupied by a single massive building called the Curtis Center. Constructed in the Georgian Revival style (Wikipedia’s words, not ours), the Center overlooks Washington Square Park to the south and the Independence Mall to the East.  Before achieving its present enormity, however, this space

Just a few blocks from a new coffee shop and around the corner from one of our preferred produce places sits a construction site that a couple of readers have recently asked us about. This has been a vacant lot for several years now, but looking back at a listing from

Months ago, we told you about space for rent at 2101 Christian St., a very small storefront in a very handsome building that has been meticulously rehabbed over the past year. Originally, the owners of the property had intended to open a sandwich shop in the space, but other opportunities

An old warehouse may be razed to make room for the construction of a 24 single-family home project at 5th and Poplar Streets. The developer and neighbors have been unable to reach an agreement about the project after return appearances before the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association (NLNA) zoning committee. Still,