Update: Fairmount Ave. is Blowing Up! With Development!
23 June, 2011 | No Comments |
From 15th St. to Corinthian Ave., you can see rebuilding and renovating up and down Fairmount Ave. As we mentioned awhile ago, a three-story 25,000 sqft. structure with three new ground-floor commercial spaces and 25 apartments at Uber St. is going up. That prime corner spot just may become home
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The New World Plaza at 6th and Washington, home to Pho Ba Le and the Ba Le Bakery, is getting a new neighbor across the street. Dentist Duyen Ngo, is having an office built for her from the ground up. Construction is moving along nicely, and they're expecting to finish
Read MoreHit List: 2022 Green St. #2
23 June, 2011 | No Comments |
This 1100 sqft. bi-level condo contains 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and is located on beautiful Green St. in the Fairmount neighborhood. The home features an eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, along with a large living room that contains a wood burning fireplace and original architectural
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Philly Live!, a 300K plus sqft. entertainment complex, will sit on the site of the former Spectrum, between Citizens Bank Park and the Wells Fargo Center. It was first announced over three years ago, when the above rendering was produced, without a clear start-time or expected completion date. As we
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Harwin Homes, the developer for Mission Place at 21st and Naudain Sts., is constructing twenty homes on the fringe of Queen Village on the 300 blocks of Salter St. and Montrose St. On a parcel of land that once housed facilities for Consolidated Laundries, Harwin is currently finishing up the
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The Create In Situ/Mural Arts interactive light installation planned for the I-95 underpass at Spring Garden street that we wrote about in April appears to be moving forward. Final design renderings for the Spring Garden Gateway Project were released over the weekend via their Facebook page. And while it is a slightly more
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Emerald Park is in mortal danger. The park, made up of nine lots on Emerald St. off the corner of E. Dauphin St., is described by neighbors and the sign outside as "The Jewel of East Kensington."
The park was established in 1996 when neighbors, with the help of the Pennsylvania
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This new construction home in Bella Vista features 2200 sqft. of living space, a large yard landscaped with pavers, and a roofdeck with a view of the entire city. The home has unique oak floors throughout and is full of natural light. The finished basement has a tiled floor and
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Celebration Banquet Hall, located at 2709 Cecil B Moore Ave., has been closed for quite awhile but is apparently interested in reopening. The building, formerly a grocery store and before that a church, could definitely use some work, but the people at Celebration were not willing to go into any
Read MoreBringing Healthy Foods to Corner Stores
21 June, 2011 | No Comments |
The folks from the Healthy Corner Store Initiative are making Philly’s neighborhoods healthier one orange, one head of lettuce, one low-fat gallon of milk, one whole-wheat loaf of bread, and one corner store at a time. Since its 11-store North Philly pilot program was launched in 2007 to make healthy
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