You may recall, we told you over a year ago about developer Steve Rodriguez's plan to build a four story, mixed-use building on the triangular lot at 24th & Grays Ferry. The building, by Campbell Thomas and LABhaus, had been delayed for quite some time because of appeals by a cabal of near neighbors,

If you've been conscious in Philadelphia for more than five minutes, you're acutely aware that we are in possession of a vast number of excellent museums featuring all kinds of fascinating things to see. While Rocky (and the design of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway) made the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A few days ago, we wondered about the failed Cherry Street West development on 23rd Street, between Race and Cherry. In that post, we shared a photo of the long-closed sales office, in a building just to the south of the surface parking lot that was supposed to be home

Although it seems an unlikely location to see a contemporary art gallery, A Poet Art Gallery took over what we think was formerly a convenience store at 4510 Walnut St. and is now in its second year of operation at this in this space. Though a few restaurants are close by,

At the risk of sounding redundant, we’ve got two Francisville updates for you regarding two projects close enough to one another for any high-school starting third basemen to heave a ball between the two.

The first, is 1900 Poplar Street, a project from TBM Group. What was last summer a large stone

For over a year, we've been keeping you abreast of developments at 2101 Christian St., one of the most outstanding and thoughtful rehabs we've seen in quite awhile. Since last April (as in 2011), the buzz has been that the owners and renovators of the property would be opening and

A reader checked in the other day, wondering about Cherry Street West, a large development that was once proposed for a surface parking lot at 23rd & Cherry. The sign on the site is faded and graffitied, and our first guess was that the project was probably dead.

As you might

You may remember last week, when we profiled a couple of former cinemas on Chestnut Street which have been turned into retail stores. In the heyday of moving picture houses, there were over fifty that were scattered across Center City, with concentrations on Chestnut and Market Streets. But as the

University City keeps getting greener and greener. Just a couple of weeks after we reported on the groundbreaking of Spruce Street Plaza, the University of Pennsylvania dedicated Shoemaker Green, an $8.5 million makeover of a plot on 33rd Street between Spruce and Walnut, just down the block.

Penn students, faculty and staff flocked

In the past, we've covered renovation projects at a couple of playgrounds in Philly, including Dickinson Square Park, Roberto Clemente, and Comegys Elementary. This month, another playground project is taking place, this time at Seger Playground, located at 1020 Lombard St., in the Wash West neighborhood.

About a week ago, construction began