In West Philly, residents are taking vacant, ignored, and unkempt city-owned lots that have existed in poor condition for decades, into their own hands.

Last March, members of the Walnut Hill Community Association (WHCA) received a roughly $10K grant from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia to transform two vacant 50th

Last week, right after the developers for Carpenter Square presented their plans to a delighted SOSNA, an attorney and architect presented for Kater Development LLC for the redevelopment of the former St. Charles School at 2029-35 Montrose St.

The developer intends to turn the school building into twenty rental apartments. The

We love fabric row. We appreciate that we can head over there and get replacement buttons for a suit, fabric to make some curtains, and/or whatever textiles our hearts desire. But it's not all fabric over there. Famous 4th Street Delicatessen, House of Tea, and Essene Market have been stalwarts

Over the summer, we lambasted the developer of 2101 Kimball St. for redeveloping a former church into a pair of condos with a distinctly nautical feel. Today, we look across the street, at 1009-1013 S. 21st St., three homes that are taking a different approach, and are improving the northeast

Over the weekend, we noticed that the Broad Street Diner at Broad & Ellsworth Sts. has made some serious progress since the last time we passed by, with a shiny new sign and even shinier new facade improvements. As we mentioned in August, Michael Petrogiannis, of the Melrose along with

For years, a former Peco substation on the southeast corner of 6th and Federal Sts. has sat empty, a lovely husk of a building, no longer needed for its original use.

Peco sold the rather large property to June Ngheim back in 1998 for $82K. In 2008, Ngheim went to the

You may remember last week, when we mentioned a new bowling/batting cage/bar/restaurant concept on the way on Oregon Ave., in South Philly. In that same neck of the woods, we noticed a zoning notice on a boarded up building, just to the west of I-95.

The application is for a take-out

A couple of weeks ago, we profiled K'House, a proposed cohousing project from Indy Hall, which will be constructed on the 1700 block of N. Howard St. While we were up there snapping pictures, we noticed a sign on the corner, at 1703-05 N. Howard St., promoting First Steel, a

In the Logan section of North Philadelphia, there lies a highly mysterious area bounded by Wingohocking, Louden, 11th St., and Roosevelt Blvd. Here, a crumbling grid of streets run through 35 acres of empty lots. It goes by many names: Philly's Bermuda Triangle, Logan Triangle, and several local colloquialisms, but

Over the past several years, the northeast corner of Broad St. and Washington Ave. has been the subject of endless speculation, seen several proposed but never developed projects, and been home to a giant pinata. Four years ago, Rimas Properties, developers of the 1352 Lofts, purchased the 4.5 acre lot