Ah, Meglio Furs, one of our favorite buildings on South Broad Street, located at the southwest intersection with Wharton Street. Actually, to be more accurate, the building is just fine, a three-story mixed-use edifice with some intact bay windows and intact cornice. It's the old sign that makes the building

The property at 238 Tasker St. is rather unusual, covering roughly 7,500 sqft and running between Tasker and Fernon Streets, with 61 feet of frontage on Tasker and a staggering 148 feet on Fernon. We first brought it your attention way back in 2014, noting that longtime occupant Phil's Battery

In 1949, an orphanage appeared at 1823 Callowhill St., in a building designed by Elizabeth Fleisher. Fleisher is the first known woman architect in Philadelphia and also was involved with the design of the Parkway House, incidentally. The building later was home to the Children's Crisis Treatment Center, which moved several years ago to

Back in January, we shared the latest iteration of plans for 2101 Washington Ave., a huge property more commonly known as the Chocolate Factory. It's known as such because Frankford Candy, the largest marketer of licensed confections and gifts in the country, was located there for decades, before moving to the Northeast about

Like we told you a few months back, Washington Avenue is getting repaved in 2021. This is rather monumental, since the last paving will be legally able to buy cigarettes and lottery tickets when this repaving occurs, which is to say that Washington Avenue will be getting paved for the

We've always been a little confused by the surface parking lot at the northeast corner of 34th & Chestnut. That's not to say that we don't understand why a parking lot would exist at this corner- with a location that's incredibly convenient to both Penn and Drexel, it certainly makes

As a representative of the Krusty the Clown's Cayman Islands Offshore Holding Corporation once said, "Ah, it's too hot today." A fine day for a swim, wouldn't you say? Unfortunately, if you're a resident of Philadelphia, swimming pools are a little hard to come by this summer, which is to say

Action Builders and Remodelers have operated out of the warehouse at 1418-22 S. 7th St. for as long as we can remember, which is also roughly as far back as Google Street View can recall, about a dozen years. Property records indicate that they've been there far longer, since the mid-1980s.

In Philadelphia and in other cities, a major component of the "urban renewal" movement of the 1940s through the 1960s entailed the wholesale demolition of intact inner city neighborhoods and their replacement with new subsidized housing. In most places, this meant the construction of new apartment towers, like in Hawthorne or Queen Village or Sharswood.

It's a scene of flux at the corner of Mascher & Berks, where industrial buildings are being replaced by (mostly) residential uses. This is incredibly consistent with what we've seen throughout South Kensington over the last decade or so, but it really smacks you in the face when you're looking