Today we are wrapping up the inaugural Naked Philly's RACP Funding Top Ten Countdown, after giving you the 6th through 10th ranked RACP-funded projects in the city earlier this week. Our journey today finds us back at some very familiar places, so let's dive in.

5. River Trail and Marginal Wharf

The old reliable grid of Philadelphia's street layout is pretty constant throughout much of downtown, with William Penn's famous design still readily apparent today. However, things go a little sideways (pun intended) where Fishtown breaks off at a 45-degree angle to the northeast, creating a series of diagonal lots as

Every year, the Pennsylvania's Office of the Budget releases news about its Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP). RACP funds are issued by the state to help with the "acquisition and construction of regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational, and historical improvement projects," perhaps more bluntly stated as "free development money." The

South Street has long been one of the key entertainment districts in the entire city, with a long history as a cultural hotbed. Things haven't been all hunky-dory for this stretch lately, with key vacancies, unfortunate fires, and even more unfortunate issues with violence taking away some of the shine

As we've been spending more time than usual in Society Hill of late, we've been increasingly drawn in by the current state of Foglietta Plaza, which sits immediately east of the Society Hill Towers and immediately west of the ever-popular Spruce Street Harbor Park as it straddles I-95. Currently an

Society Hill is an area of the city that has remained remarkably stubborn in the face of the recent wave of development that has taken to just about every corner of the city. A lack of large development parcels combined with a push to limit height has led to few

It was back in August when we told you about some exciting news regarding the newest project from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). This new tower, currently named the Schuylkill Avenue Research Building (SARB), will complement the existing Roberts Center and will provide a second structure to CHOP's growing

If you get off the harrowing 23rd Street exit from 676, you'll whiz past a property at the corner of 23rd & Summer, and until quite recently, you probably wouldn't have given it much thought. A surface parking lot until just recently, plans have long been in place for a

Way back in February, when pitchers and catchers were just reporting for the NL-pennant-winning Phillies, we shared renderings of two new towers that were part of the UCity Square life sciences campus that were slated to rise at 38th & Market in booming University City. We didn't have many details at

Bella Vista is such a quintessential Philly neighborhood, with rows of rowhomes running up against neighborhood businesses. Dante & Luigi's might be the archetypal South Philly small business, as the oldest Italian restaurant in the city, proudly gracing the northwest corner of 10th & Catherine. As much as we'd love