Pumpkin Cafe Bullied Out Of Location By James Cyril Campbell
22 February, 2011 | No Comments | Graduate Hospital, Rittenhouse
James Cyril Campbell is the proud owner of 1609 South Street and the hated landlord of Pumpkin Cafe's Ian Moroney and Hilary Bor. Why are they hated? Well Hilary won't say, but anyone who has passed by the location, knows that the ongoing dispute over the lease (this has been going
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The 1,950-square-foot green home at 714 S. Bancroft Street has just gone under contract, which means there are only three units for the Bancroft Green project left. These homes may be half a million, but they sport huge green roofs (and in this location that means a great skyline view),
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So this weekend it was 60 degrees and tonight we are getting 3-inches of snow. Nana Petrillo's in the Piazza is practicing mind over manner: they just added more outdoor seating to go along with their Capogiro Gelato selections. Straight from the Nana horse's mouth: "Winter hours has us open
Read MorePhiladelphia Man Forecloses On Wells Fargo, Looks Like Jafar
21 February, 2011 | No Comments |
Patrick Rodgers has just stuck it to the proverbial man. Rodgers had initially questioned the bank as to why he had to pay a $1M home insurance premium on his 3-story $180K Victorian home. Thanks to Rodgers' smarts for reading The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the contents of Wells Fargo
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If you’ve passed by the intersection at 16th and Ridge Avenue, you’ve probably noticed that it is very, very vacant. However there are plans in the works to change that. The development, formally Vineyards at 16th, will be LEED-certified (a nationally accepted program for the construction and operation of high-performance
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Philly is full of sites that used to be industrial spots where the soil is now completely contaminated by hazardous wastes (yay community gardens). A pop-up project will be made on one of these sites in Northern Liberties for the first week in April. This seems like a project we’d
Read MoreTehran Inspired By Liberty Place?
21 February, 2011 | No Comments |
There is a new building in Tehran, Iran, that looks strikingly like Liberty Place in Center City, which was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects. The resemblance is obvious, and we can’t help but think the inspiration came from our very own Philadelphia landmark, as the architecture and design
Read MoreDetective Work: Which South Philly Bar Is Closing?
20 February, 2011 | No Comments | Passyunk Square, South Philly
Let’s play a game. “A cozy Bar/Restaurant located in a busy South Philly neighborhood” is up for sale for a cool $349,000 (complete with fixtures and furniture). The bar in question was established in 1961, has four flat screens, an 80-inch projection screen, 7 beers on draft and beer to-go.
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Just kidding. But seriously. Developers are demolishing more churches than we can count on our idle hands. The Metropolitan AME Church at 731 S. 20th St. is in the process of being razed (as you can see) and Dawn Tancredi has wasted no time in applying to create six homes
Read MorePhiladelphia’s most creative entertainment industry workers are at it again. Designing a studio on 1600 North 5th Street, the founders of The Neighborhood set up both a physical workspace and a professional network to help new Philly productions launch. The studio is literally a Truman Show-esque reproduction of suburban houses (used
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