Yesterday, we told you about the new bike shop that's potentially coming to the 1400 block of Frankford Ave., in Fishtown. Just down the street is a project we first told you about back in October, before it broke ground.

Next to the Bicycle Stable is an empty lot, owned by the folks

A large warehouse space in Point Breeze could become the newest and most exciting development in the neighborhood in the very near future. We know, it's tough to believe that someone could be planning something more exciting than a mixed-use development property with a pharmacy on Point Breeze Ave. or

In Philly, urban farming projects are becoming almost as popular as Midtown Village's Restaurant Row.

When it's launched this April, the West Philly Fresh Food Hub mobile food truck will bring high quality, produce, dairy, free-range eggs and more to the Belmont neighborhood along Lancaster Avenue between 37th and 40th Streets, and surrounding areas.

“We are trying to

Just yesterday, we told you about seven houses on the way at 614-20 N. American St. in Northern Liberties. Today, through the magic of electronic communication, we present renderings for these new homes, courtesy or architects Harman Deutsch.

Looking at the renderings, we can see our inference from the zoning application

We've gotten so many emails about 1942 Christian St. over the past few months, and have come up fairly empty in terms of answers about it, so today we bring it to you, good readers, to try to find a way to clean up this underused, undermaintained building on a

We were in the neighborhood yesterday, and snapped some photos just north of 4th and Brown Sts. after enjoying a tasty beverage from One Shot Coffee.

Last summer, we told you about Four Squared at 817-23 N 4th St., from Ward Properties. At the time, two of the four homes in this development

According to a zoning application we noticed last week, 1331 Frankford Ave. will be getting a new bike shop in short order. But nearby Bicycle Stable need not worry about the competition, since the new establishment will be specializing in bikes of the motorized variety.

The application indicates that the space

A reader checked in last week, wondering what's cooking at 1930 Chestnut St.

He was referring to the first floor commercial space of the Aldine Trust Company building, which was constructed in 1930 and designed by Arthur W. Hall. Perhaps not coincidentally, the original Aldine Hotel was located just down the

Developer Trebiano Group LLC will soon be transforming a vacant lot at 614-20 N American St. into seven new single-family homes. This is one (of many) sites in Philadelphia that once had grand designs, only to see them dashed by the rocky economy.

As recently as a few years ago, this parcel was

One of our readers emailed us, and asked us what we knew about the empty factory at 1201 Jackson St., in South Philly. Apparently, some work has been going on in this building, though this has stopped in recent weeks. We trekked down there this weekend to investigate.

The building was