Gardens, green roofs and garages are three things you don't often see in the city (at least not all together, unless you're the guy who owns that killer mansion with the 5-car garage and landscaped front yard at 3rd and Walnut). The new gated community at 48th Street, West Village, is a

Beyond The Wall poster store on South Street is closing at the end of March. This doesn't surprise us seeing South Street is full of more "For Rent" signs than "Open" signs. We're not sure if it's tourists and locals, or just locals, that have come to view South Street

Philadelphia just received $149M in grant money for affordable housing developments. The new housing will go up at Fairmount Gardens, 1900 West Allegheny Avenue, near 1221-25 South 15th Street in South Philly and West Philly among others. Read more here.

Center City is about to get its very own 478-square-foot Krispy Kreme donut shop at the old Rite Aid locale at 1535 Chestnut Street (Children's Place will take the 1729-square-foot corner lot), part of Philly brothers' Brian Zaslow and Keith Morgan plan to bring 21 Krispy Kremes to Philly. Gardener/Fox

Yesterday was IHOP's National Pancake Day and Conrad Brenner of Streets Dept fame took some pics of last night's crowd around Center City's IHOP. As Brenner says, "seems like a lot of work for a couple of pancakes." Click here for the Streets Dept Pancake Day post.

The Hilton in at Penn has launched a multi-million dollar renovation to modernize the 238 guest rooms and suites. Design firm RD Jones and Associates will spearhead the two-phase project to sustainably remodel the units into something more contemporary. WaterSense shower heads (these save thousands of gallons of water

UJMN Architects + Designers did such a good designing the new offices for University City's Energy Plus, that EP wasted no time hiring them to design their expansion at the LEED Silver 3711 Market Street building. The contemporary and open project will be on the heels of Cushman & Wakefield's

On Groundhog Day city officials and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts resident and CEO, Dr. David R. Brigham, showed off the new Lenfest Plaza, the future home of what they project to be a creative and serene atmosphere for local artists on what is now East Cherry Street. With tourist

A new parking garage will be built next to the historic Arch Street United Methodist Church located at Broad and Arch. While the idea had created a bit of controversy and concern, mostly by the church as well as the 150-year-old Masonic Temple, developing team Realen Properties has made steps

The 401 Race Street property spanning from 4th to 5th street between Race and Florist streets has been a huge topic of discussion for those trying to develop the space, as well as for locals who aren’t so sure that the plans in mind for 401 Race Street are what’s