Just as housing for the living shapes the built environment of our cities, so too does housing for the deceased. It might be a bit macabre, but learning about cemeteries can help us learn about history of many neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Take, for example, the massive Cathedral Cemetery in Mills

Housing development may have slowed across Philadelphia of late, but that's not really the case in Manayunk, where good sized residential and mixed-use projects along the Main Street corridor continue securing approvals to redevelop former industrial sites near the Schuylkill River. But sometimes the approval process takes quite some time and

McDonald's advanced one step closer to opening a new Center City location yesterday, nearly five years after a fire resulted in the demolition of a longtime space near Rittenhouse Square. The store will be located at 1604 Chestnut St., just around the corner from the former location on the 1700

We love to see new mixed-use projects transform under-utilized properties near train stations, so we were pretty excited to cover the construction of two new apartment buildings on Midvale Avenue just next to the East Falls Regional Rail Station back in 2022. Nearly two years later, construction on both projects

If you've been following along even casually over the last number of years, you may have noticed that we here at Naked Philly have a great love for old movie theaters. These buildings once dominated the urban landscape of America, whether on major retail corridors or dotting residential neighborhoods. But

There are a lot of great things about NYC, though lately we're hearing that every New Yorker dreams about moving to Philadelphia. The southern migration isn't limited to folks who bought a home in Fishtown after living in a glorified walk-in closet in Manhattan - New York retailers are also

We've been warning about the dearth of new housing in the pipeline in Philadelphia for a while now, and the slim agenda for the March Civic Design Review committee meeting seems like another bearish indicator. Aside from a second review for a mixed-use project at the former Manayunk Dyeworks, there's

It's been nearly a decade since a four alarm fire ripped through the Pvt. Boleslaw Grochowski American Legion club house in Frankford during Memorial Day observations in 2016. Fortunately, the blaze did not claim any lives, and miraculously a few mementos were even salvaged. Unfortunately, the fire devastated the two

Even though we've been covering development in Philadelphia for well over a decade, we must confess that sometimes, occasionally, every so often, we get something wrong. There are but a small handful of examples, but here's one, just for fun. Back in 2018, we brought you to the 2100 block

We’ve covered a few dormant projects that have come back to life recently, and today we have news of yet another, this time on the edge of Northern Liberties. We last covered the one-story commercial building at the corner of Orianna & Girard way back in 2017, after the owners