Lots of action today around the Fante-Leone pool. When we were over there snapping photos, we spotted a couple of orange signs around the corner, up the easy-to-miss Schell Street. Check this out.

Developer Schell Street Properties LLC (clever name, huh?) is proposing four new four-story homes on this itty bitty

A building that most recently was an auto tag service center could soon represent the next step in the revitalization of North Broad Street. Sitting directly to the south of the Divine Lorraine, this structure pales in comparison, architecturally. Okay fine. Most buildings in Philadelphia pale in comparison to the Divine Lorraine.

On

A couple months back, we told you about a recently started student housing project at 1516-18 N 15th St., replacing a demolished Voodoo Church. The former church, like many properties in the area, was over a hundred years old and built in the Italianate style.

North Broad Living, a company that owns

We were in the neighborhood yesterday picking up some cheese and noticed a zoning notice at 837 Montrose St., the former Fante-Leone swimming pool.

We love this building. Well, the facade on Montrose St., at least. We wrote a post about it last year, detailing some of its history and wondering

As we've covered over the past several months, development just keeps moving along in the West Poplar/Spring Garden/Spring Arts neighborhood. Today, we bring a rather small upcoming project to your attention that sits in the shadow of one the largest potential projects in the neighborhood.

Vacant lot

1013 Green St., according

On the up-and-coming 1100 block of North Hope St., two more parcels will soon join numerous other properties currently being redeveloped. In January, NLNA gave their support to the construction of two single family homes at 1140-42 N. Hope St., each with four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

According to public record,

For those of you who haven't spent much time in Francisville, it's not as confusing as it first seems. But it's still not simple to get around. At least not for those of us who have grown accustomed to the friendly grid found in much of Philadelphia, with its predictable

2111 E Susquehanna Ave., a soap works in a former life, has been on the market for a couple of years now, and it appears to finally have a buyer. Last listed for $549K, it went under contract earlier this year, and the probable buyers have applied for variances with the

A couple of days ago, we were behind Naval Square on Schuylkill Ave., and captured a shot of the framed out Adison Manor condo building. It's one of the final buildings going up at Naval Square, marking the approaching conclusion of a project that's gone on for nearly a decade.

Meanwhile, around

Last fall, we told you about Diamond Green, a new student housing development at 10th & Diamond Sts.

Brought to us by Mosaic Development Partners, Orens Brothers Real Estate, and Metamorphosis Community Development Corporation this mixed-use development will have 92 residential units as well as approximately 12K sqft of retail space. Parking, too.

Since we