With around 90 flavors, chocolate cones and Oreo cake to treat your dessert needs in this clothes-stickin’ heat, Philly Flavors at 2004 Fairmont Avenue is expanding this season to include seating next door at 2006 Fairmount Avenue, the former location of the Wine School. Come mid-July, about 25 new seats

According to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Indices (the industry leader that tracks and measures U.S. home prices) America’s housing price index has dropped 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011. Translation: if you bought a house four months ago for $300K, today it would be worth $287,940. Yes,

Don’t be fooled by the old sign still hanging over 736 South 8th Street. Vesuvio is long gone; replaced by a much sexier, and more interesting relative: Little Bar. Over the years, owner and manager Mike D’Addesi has given the building several modifications. Originally an Italian fine dining restaurant, Vesuvio was

Hammers are clanking and saws are buzzing at 2026 Fairmount Avenue the site that for at least the past three years has been a vacant eyesore on the main street in the neighborhood where it intersects Corinthian Avenue across the street from the Eastern State Penitentiary. In the next few

The worker we stopped at 2056 Pine Street tells us that a hair salon is taking the spot. Taking a peak inside, we can tell it's a long way off (it's completely gutted and waiting for some love). The address was the former corner spot of Andro's Sweets & Treats,

In eight weeks John Garbarino hopes to finish work on 1910 South Street. His plans for the building includes four apartments with "all the upgrades," two of which will be bi-level units. All apartments are two bedrooms and one bath, and he hopes to get $2K a month for each,

The four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home at 752 S. Dorrance Street sold in February for $777,500 (it was listed for $869K at one point). The 25-foot-wide townhouse has more than 3000-square-feet of living space, a custom kitchen with Viking Appliances, stone-and-porcelain baths, high ceilings, a fully finished basement, two-car garage and a large roof deck.

Naked Chocolate Café at 1317 Walnut Street closed last month, but will soon be replaced by Philly Chocolate Boutique. The upcoming hotspot for chocolate fanatics is being brought to us by the same people behind local cupcakery, Philly Cupcake. We reached out to them to get some more information, but

Located right across from the Academy of Music on 237 South Broad Street, the Doubletree Hotel has recently opened The Balcony. The restaurant, located on the mezzanine level of the hotel, has just undergone two months of gutting and renovations. Previously known as Academy Cafe, manager Stan Klos notes that

Great news for Northern Liberties vintage lovers as Jinxed in the Piazza begins to call your name. Jinxed, as you may know, is a long-loved Philly shop that sells art-based T-shirts, books, toys and prints from brands like Kid Robot, Rebel 8, Gama-Go and Upper Playground that originally opened its doors