For decades, Fairmount has been one of the more stable neighborhoods outside of downtown Philadelphia. But this town has always been a city of neighborhoods, often changing block by block. So it's a little odd in the abstract that neighboring Brewerytown languished for many years as Fairmount hummed along, but

Between its building and its parking lot, the Hoa Binh shopping center takes up most of the square block enclosed by Washington Avenue, Carpenter Street, 16th Street, and Chadwick Street. We've personally visited a few of the businesses located in this shopping center over the years, including the Big 8 Supermarket,

As we've detailed over the years, Bella Vista and Queen Village both possess some unique features from a street grid perspective, owing to their status as older neighborhoods. For reasons we can only guess, surveyors established a number of tiny streets in these neighborhoods when they plotted the grid way back when, so

The building at 631 N. Broad St. dates back to 1867, and as you might expect from a building that's been around since the Andrew Johnson administration, it's had a number of uses over the years. It was originally constructed as the Edwin Hart Stables, a function that's called out on an inscription

When we think about West Philadelphia, wonderful architecture is one of the first things that comes to mind. With a mix of Victorian homes with colorfully painted bays and a range of aesthetically pleasing apartment buildings, we can geek out in numerous West Philly neighborhoods for hours on end. As we've detailed over the

The restaurant Bridget Foy's operated at the corner of 2nd & South since 1978, a constant in the sea of changing urban landscape. Sadly, a 2017 electrical fire severely damaged the building out of which the restaurant operated, thanks to a combination of fire, smoke, and water. The fire was not

We were trekking through Mantua the other day and were cheered when we noticed some significant progress at a long vacant property where 33rd Street hits Mantua Avenue. We brought this triangular 13K sqft parcel to your attention about a year and a half ago, noting that it had been

We've been tracking the situation at 875 Corinthian Ave. for a few years now, and indeed things have changed quite a bit during that time. Back in 2016, we noticed a 'For Sale By Owner' sign at the property and we wondered whether the party that would eventually buy the property would

Grays Ferry Avenue has experienced a significant transformation over the last twenty years, reflecting the major changes in the rest of the surrounding Graduate Hospital neighborhood. The most noticeable difference of course, is the construction of Naval Square on the 20 acres of land that was once home to the original

If you want to live in downtown Philadelphia and want to be in the middle of everything, you could do a lot worse than Walnut Street. Many people want to live in downtown Philadelphia, and many people want to live on Walnut Street, but one can only buy a place