Max Glass, a consultant at JM & Company, is taking on his first big development project in Graduate Hospital. Glass, a University of Pennsylvania graduate,  has proposed the demolition of the existing building at 2149 Catherine Street to create a three-story building with commercial space on the first floor, offices on the

The University of Pennsylvania has partnered with Parks & Recreation (not Amy Poehler) to give away 300 free trees to faculty and staff who own homes in Philly. The Tree Giveaway with Mayor Nutter will be on Thursday, March 31, on College Green at 1pm, where pre-registered participants can pick

Brian McManus, the music editor and a contributing food writer at Philadelphia Weekly, has a 168-page paperback in the works. Philadelphia's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the City of Brotherly Love is a compilation of McManus' seasoned experience helping people to "find out where to get wasted after visiting the

The new Bicycle Revolutions is moving to its new shop at 756 S. Fourth Street today at 11am! The move means they are taking everything (include Buda, the store dog) from the old location at 712 S. Fourth Street to the bright green and pink interior of the new digs.

Vape is the cool new term for those who use electronic cigarettes, those Gattaca-looking things that light up just like a real cancer stick but omit only water vapor. Thankfully for the rest of us who need oxygen to breath, e-cigs have become very popular (when Katherine Heigl and David Letterman

On a tip from a reader, we headed over to the northwest corner of 17th and Christian Streets to check out a new window-laden first-floor corner retail space. Luckily for us, the owner, Gus Tolson, was there for us to mysteriously question as a possible buyer. The renovated 1000-square-foot space with new

You didn't hear it from us, but a "well-established Rittenhouse restaurant" is up for sale for $1.4M. The clues: about 4000 square feet, located on a corner of 20th near Locust Street, outdoor seating, two floors of dining with 100 seats and 12-seat bar. "Sale includes real estate, business assets,

Dan Clark of Pub & Kitchen is planning to demolish (there was no opposition at the SOSNA meeting) the existing building at 609 South 20th Street to create a one-story cafe/restaurant tentatively named Bedford Cafe. More info coming soon.

The 3000-square-foot Casino Dealer School and School of Bartending in Bensalem is opening a new location at 1800 N. Delaware Avenue on the 5th floor. There will be 2500-square-feet of rooms that will house blackjack, roulette, craps and poker tables; 700-square-feet of office space; and 800-square-feet of bartending school. John

The Delaware River Port Authority has selected a joint venture of URS Corp. and Urban Engineers (the engineers behind Route 476, the Vinestreet Expressway and the redevelopment of 30th Street Station) to provide construction management services for the replacement of the deck of the Walt Whitman Bridge. The seven-lane, 11,981-foot-long bridge