While perusing the ZBA calendar for this week, we noticed hearings for 932 and 938 Edgley St., with plans calling for the construction of single family homes. The name of the street was familiar to us, though we couldn't place the block on the map, offhand. At first, we believed Edgley

You'd be forgiven for never having heard of Braddock Street, as it exists for exactly one block on the edge of East Kensington and then comes and goes in Harrowgate before disappearing forever at Glenwood Avenue. Today we look at the one block in East Kensington, which we have incidentally covered

It felt like the end of an era a couple years ago, when we shared the news that the longtime homes of Swift Food Equipment and Economy Restaurant Supply were listed for sale. For decades, 2nd Street in Old City was the place to go to buy restaurant equipment, with Swift

The ball has dropped, the fireworks have exploded in the foggy distance, and your hangover is almost definitely gone. You walked into the office today and it's a full house for the first time in weeks. And your co-workers are ready to... get to work? Wow, this feels weird. Yes folks, the holiday

We like to start every year by making a series of predictions about what's to come in Philadelphia real estate, development, and sports. As we're now at the end of 2018, it seems worthwhile to look back and see just how well we were able to predict the future. Please remember,

As a function of their longevity, colleges and universities in Philadelphia possess a diverse collection of architecture, from the sublime to the subpar. Penn has the Quad and Houston Hall, but it also has Williams Hall and the high rise dorms on the western side of campus. Drexel has its

Brewerytown obviously has a historic connection to industry, as its name strongly suggests. These days, industrial uses are pretty much absent around these parts, but the neighborhood's urban environment serves as a regular reminder of its past. To wit, several large scale projects have appeared within the neighborhood over the

It wasn't so long ago that it felt like Wawa was abandoning downtown Philadelphia in favor of suburban gas station locations, as several longtime locations were closing down and no new stores were opening. C'mon, let's walk together down memory lane and pour one out for the Wawa at 20th & Locust. And 11th &

Roughly half a year ago, we noticed a City violation poster on an old warehouse at 1139 N. 3rd St., which gave us pause because at first we thought it was a zoning notice. Upon closer examination though, we realized that the poster on the building was not an indication

We've been pretty direct in our complaints about surface parking lots over the years, lamenting that they never represent the highest and best use for a property. To be clear, this isn't just a matter of us spouting urbanist rhetoric, though most urbanists would surely agree that surface parking lots are