As much as we love SEPTA, we find ourselves frustrated that so much of our mass transit system remains inaccessible, even though it's been decades since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Fortunately, the agency is now committed to achieving near total accessibility on the Metro and

We've covered a few big projects along Manayunk's Main Street recently, but last week at a meeting of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council we learned of another upcoming change for this commercial corridor. Vira Hookah Lounge at 4219 Main St. is permanently shutting down to make room for a new bar

Last week, we provided an update on a long stalled townhome project near Passyunk Avenue, sharing the news that this development would finally finish up after years in purgatory. Now it seems like a similarly paused project nearby will also be making progress soon enough. Last week, a demolition permit

The process of developing real estate is so incredibly fraught, it's frankly a miracle that most projects progress in a predictable fashion. Even so, there are always some projects that run into insurmountable issues and are not able to get across the proverbial finish line. A frozen construction site becomes

In January of 2022, the City of Philadelphia hit developers with a double whammy: a reduction of the value of the property tax abatement and a new construction tax. In anticipation of this change, developers rushed to pull building permits to vest their projects under the old, more favorable tax

Almost four years ago, we visited the 1800 block of Ludlow Street and presented you with a mystery. A developer was working on an assemblage, but we didn't know the ultimate plan for the site. Already, they owned 1808 and 1810 Ludlow St., along with 1813 Ranstead St., which were

What do you do with old industrial properties like electric substations that have outlived their original purpose? Sometimes the answer is to knock them down and move on to the next thing. As we saw with a former substation in Pennsport, sometimes they can be rehabilitated for another purpose. Now

The triple-wide 415-17 S. 15th St. was constructed as a single family home around 1860, which is pretty consistent with construction standards for mansions of the time, but feels extremely over the top these days. 419 S. 15th St. was built next door a couple years later, also as a

A ton of new housing has appeared along Front Street in recent years, with the 204 unit Urby building at 1700 N Front St. representing one of the largest projects. If you were concerned that all these new residents were going to starve, we're here to tell you not to

We've been covering the transformation of western Washington Avenue for years now, with a number of properties making the jump to mixed use, but plenty remaining entrenched as industrial or commercial. 2400 Washington Ave., a nearly 3-acre property that's primarily used for the storage of building supplies, falls into the