Later this summer, developers Temple Nest Apartments will got to the ZBA, seeking a variance to build a four-story building at 3526 Mount Vernon St., on a parcel that's currently sitting vacant. The building, as proposed, would contain 18 apartments which we have to think would target a student population, given

A couple readers have reached out of late, wondering about ongoing and upcoming changes at the intersection of 22nd & Christian. And the curiosity is understandable, given the surprising amount of action here, in a neighborhood that sees less and less construction these days. Let's go around the horn, shall we?Maybe

We were traveling up North Broad Street the other day and noticed some significant progress on the new building at 1310 N. Broad St., a project we first told you about a year and a half ago. You may recall, an unimpressive two story building stood at this address, which was most

If you're traveling through or near Callowhill, there's a new building under construction that's quite eye catching. Sure, any construction in any part of town makes our radar bleep, but this particular project would draw the attention of even the most oblivious phone gazer due to one very specific characteristic-

It's true that there's very little room for Penn to expand its footprint on the edges of campus, though the university has continued to build new buildings over the last several years. Two of those buildings, the creatively named New College House and the rather derivatively named New College House

Like countless other properties in South Kensington, the buildings at the northeast corner of Howard & Norris were used for industrial purposes for decades, dating back to the 19th century. Way back when, the site was used by a few different carpet mills, and into the middle of the last century,

Given its location at 4200 Chester Ave., a stone's throw from both Penn and University of the Sciences, you might expect that Millcreek Tavern would lean heavily into the neighboring student population and work hard to attract that demographic. And sure, students find their way through the door, but the bar/restaurant is

St. Gabriel’s is a Catholic Church at the corner of 29th & Dickinson whose story echoes many houses of worship in Philadelphia. The attractive building dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, and in its heyday the church was surely packed to the gills for Sunday mass, let alone

For reasons we can't begin to get into here, the budgets for the City of Philadelphia experienced severe shortfalls during the early part of this decade, resulting in various cuts. The Streets Department was not immune to those cuts, and one result was a dramatic reduction in street paving activity. Per a

There are over a dozen historic districts in Philadelphia, most of which are centered around a collection of buildings whose architecture makes them worthy of designation. But there are always stragglers in each district which don't clear the historic bar, generally because they are new compared to their neighbors or they're of