You may know this by now given the hundreds of times this has come up previously, but we are none too fond of surface parking lots, most especially in and around Center City. So it was with delight that we reported in April on the lot at 2000-24 Arch St.

On the blocks around Penn, we continue to see new, varied, and sometimes surprising examples of multi-family development. Chestnut Street alone is responsible for over 1,300 units across several blocks in the 40s, with other redevelopment slated to the east on Chestnut with a new Target coming to the front

Bah-dah-bah-bah-bahhhh, we're loving it..."it" in this case being all of the McDonald's related development news coming out lately. Let's add the McDonald's at 3935 Walnut St. to the list now, as this low-rise building that's stood on Penn's campus for 50 some years is in store for some Super Sizing.

As we make the shift from summer to fall, we try to appreciate the remaining warm, sunny days before the inevitability of cold, dark, rainy evenings enter our day-to-day lives. And what better place to do that than along the glorious Schuylkill Banks? We are apparently not alone in that

Fast food restaurants are quickly going the way of the dinosaur in Center City, with the McDonald's that once stood at 914 S. Broad St. as a prime example of how tastes change. It was back in February of last year when we told you that this McDonald's, which had

After first setting our eyes on a vision nearly a decade ago, it appears that a final design is in place for the long awaited Park at Penn's Landing, which will dramatically replace the hot and hardscaped Great Plaza. After several years of updates and iterations, engineering and approvals, the

It was just the other week when we made our way to the corner of 5th & Spring Garden in Northern Liberties, where a 300+ unit apartment tower appears on the verge of getting started on the southeast corner. Immediately catty-corner, a project we checked on back in February is

We've never been to Philadelphia Traffic Court personally (due to our impeccable driving record), but we are very familiar with its large presence on the 800 block of Spring Garden Street, across from the recently demolished Spring Garden Station. However, the area just to the south of the Traffic Court

"Whimsy" probably isn't the first word you think of when it comes to the El tracks that hover above Front Street, and for good reason. It's the El! It's a sun-blocking steel superstructure that we all wish could be buried! Fortunately, things are getting a bit less grave on the

It was only a week ago when we dropped new renderings for the eagerly anticipated Calder Gardens, a brand-new gallery coming to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We had some idea of what was to come, but details were scant, which was especially intriguing giving the unorthodox design featuring a mix