
We've written about thousands of projects over the years, so you can forgive us if every now and then we forget about having covered something previously. And frankly, in the case of 1412 W. Dauphin St., we think we deserve a bit of leeway. We were in the area the other
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Stop us if you've heard this one, but Front Street is getting another apartment building. This corridor has seen explosive growth over the last few years, with a staggering number of new apartments running from Girard all the way up past Kensington Avenue. Though the construction on Front Street north of
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After grabbing a curbside coffee at Steap and Grind the other day, we were heading up the 1400 block of E. Columbia for like two seconds before we noticed a new building had appeared on the block at some point over the last few months. We needed to go back
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We've been pondering the vacant lot at the northeast corner of 9th & Wharton for years. We lived around the corner for awhile in the mid-aughts, and wondered about it almost every time we walked past. We wrote about it back in 2012, explaining that the Slovak St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church
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We were in the neighborhood the other day (grabbing a tasty to-go beverage from Burg's Hideaway, if you must know) and a Demolition Notice caught our eye on the 2100 block of Ellsworth. The sign was posted on the home at 2128 Ellsworth St., but we naturally assumed that it actually
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We were looking at some aerial images of West Philly last week, which is of course a very common activity that normal people do all the time. Right? Hey, stop looking at us like that.As we were saying, we were looking at some aerial images and something caught our eye near
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We were in the area recently (dropping off a mail-in ballot, if you must know), and we were pleased to see some nice progress on a new apartment building just north of Front & Spring Garden. A little more than three years ago, we told you that developers had purchased the little
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Philadelphia is a first class city, home to several large corporations and a host of small businesses, but "Eds and Meds" are the biggest drivers of the local economy. The eds are the local colleges and universities, like Penn, Drexel, Temple, and University of the Arts, to name a few.
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At this point, it's well worn territory that South Kensington has changed dramatically over the last several years. In its heyday, this neighborhood was part of a larger section of town known as the Workshop of the World, home to numerous factories which produced goods that were used locally and,
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A reader reached out to us recently, wondering about some nearly completed demolition activity near the corner of 8th & Walnut. Needless to say, this is not an area that typically sees buildings get torn down, so our first assumption was that we were losing a wonderful historic structure. In reality? Not
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