If you love Dave and Busters, maybe you'd like to live as close as possible to their location on the Delaware waterfront. For a rental, we'd suggest One Water Street apartments, a residential high rise just north of the Ben Franklin Bridge which was completed just a few years ago.
Read MoreThe Italian Market is a Philadelphia landmark, and not just because Rocky has jogged through it once or twice. It's home to a number of restaurants and specialty food stores, some of the most affordable produce in town, and a few flaming barrels for warmth. Every May, it's home to
Read MoreRowhomes are probably the most familiar type of housing in Philadelphia's neighborhoods that developed in the late 19th and early 20th century. Rowhomes are the personification of efficiency and were a great option for the factory workers of yesterday and remain a popular choice for the workers and professionals of
Read MoreWe generally love writing about surface parking lots getting redeveloped into more useful purposes, and that goes for double in Philadelphia's most walkable neighborhoods. We'd normally be pretty excited to report about the proposal recently brought to the Historical Commission to build a project on the surface lot at 301-15
Read MoreHere's a game we like to play when strolling around town - it's called "Spot the Firehouse." Active firehouses are worth zero points and former firehouses are worth all the points. It's fun because there are so many of them sprinkled around Philadelphia's neighborhoods, and you can generally spot them
Read MoreMissed Opportunity as Parking Garage Replacing Mercantile Library
22 November, 2024 | No Comments | Market EastIt's fair to say that most Philadelphians walking along the 1000 block of Chestnut Street are totally unaware of the presence of a Midcentury Modern architectural gem on the north side of the block. In the middle of the 20th century, the Mercantile Library at 1021 Chestnut St. served residents,
Read MoreThe 1900 block of S. Broad Street has a long history of serving the medical needs of South Philadelphia. Saint Agnes Hospital opened here in 1879, at one point taking up an entire city block. The original hospital building was demoed in the early 1970s and was replaced by a
Read MoreBuilding on Race Street Adding Apartments and a Restaurant
18 November, 2024 | No Comments | ChinatownWhile there are some parts of Center City that look pretty much the same as they did a decade (or decades) ago, Chinatown just isn't one of them. In this neighborhood in the last number of years, we've seen buildings go up on former parking lots, along with plenty of
Read MoreThe last time we checked in on the former Grand Theatre on the northwest corner of 7th & Snyder, we shared that the property was under contract and wondered whether this transaction might result in the unique building's demolition. The building, which was originally built as a church and then
Read MoreIt's hard to imagine, but the Delaware waterfront was once a massive industrial hub, home to factories, warehouses, shipping concerns, and so forth. Just about all the industry is now gone from the waterfront in the areas around Center City, though vestiges of this industrial history have hung around for
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