It's been a long road for the townhome development on the 1300 block of Bainbridge, which we first brought to your attention way back in 2012. At that time, the sizable lot at 1319-51 Bainbridge St. was operating as a surface parking lot, which seemed like a bit of an

Someday, when we've got some serious time on our hands, we'll do some research and try to learn about how and why lot lines were drawn when city blocks were established back in the 19th century. Was it good city planning back then to make lots as large as possible? To keep

The five-story building at 909 Corinthian Ave. dates back to 1911, and was originally constructed as housing for nurses. Those nurses worked across the street, at Lankenau Hospital, at least until the hospital moved to the Main Line in 1953. Unrelated to the building, it's remarkable to consider that two hospitals

A reader reached out the other day and drew our attention to three homes currently under construction on Lincoln Drive, in Mount Airy. Granted, this is a little out of our typical geographic scope- but hey, the ZBA has been closed for a month and a half and hardly any construction

We visited Good Spoon Soupery the other day for some curbside pickup and noticed some relatively recent demolition activity just a few doors down. Since this is what we do, we figured we'd investigate what happened at 1350 N. Front St., where a rather unexciting single family home once stood.Looking at

A reader reached out to us, wondering what's happening at 2222 Frankford Ave., where a building was demolished toward the end of last year. Looking into things, we took a trip down memory lane using Google Maps Street View, and took a look at this property way back in 2007.

We first visited the 2500 block of W. Oxford Street back in 2017, and for a host of reasons, this feels like it was instead thirty years ago. Back then, this block felt like it was very far away from the development boom to the south in Brewerytown, due to

The building at 1723 Francis St. sits in the middle of Francisville, at the intersection of Francis and Perkiomen Streets, where Francis Street curiously and dangerously switches directions from one-way moving northeast to one-way moving southwest. Why this continues to be the case and how there are not numerous head-on collisions

The Fairmount neighborhood is one of the most established in greater Center City, with a well maintained housing stock which sell for high prices, a quality neighborhood public school, and a strong commercial corridor on Fairmount Avenue (half of which is technically in Spring Garden and some of which is in

Visit the intersection of 17th & Master sometime, and you'll see a swath of vacant land on the southwest corner that's just 36 feet shy of the length of a football field. This expanse of open space contains 12 different properties, and experience would suggest that some or all of