Many rejoiced when Wawa opened its doors at the northeast corner of 22nd & South back in April, excited for grocery essentials, hoagies, and all the other stuff that you get at Wawa. Not everyone was so thrilled though, including bicyclists that have been frustrated by the near constant illegal

The 700 block of Latona Street isn't one of the more traversed blocks in the city, so you can be forgiven if you've never found yourself there. Having lived around the corner roughly a decade ago, we've been on this block plenty, and it's 80% a standard South Philly block,

Going back at least a decade, the building at 1227 N. 7th St. was sitting vacant and blighted. Until a few years ago, this was par for the course on this block and many other nearby blocks in South Kensington, thanks to years of disinvestment. But as we've said time and

With the Philadelphia real estate market on a hot streak that's been going for years, we've seen numerous white elephant buildings finally land in developers' crosshairs. Examples include the former Spring Garden School in West Poplar, converted into an affordable housing building, and the long vacant Poth Brewery, now getting

With apologies to the people that live there, Carpenter Street between 11th and 12th Streets is a fairly unremarkable Hawthorne block. Almost every home on the block goes up three stories, with a mix of original facades and "newer" facades that still date back a few decades. One property, 1116 Carpenter St.,

As the name suggests, Parkway Corporation is in the parking business. They don't own all the parking lots in Center City, but they own or operate at least a couple dozen lots or garages around town, so if you've got a car then you've probably given them some of your

Way back in 2011, we wrote about the 2100 blocks of Federal, Annin, Ellsworth, and Alter Streets, trying to understand why the homes on these blocks don't look anything like other homes in the neighborhood. Most homes in Point Breeze are of the row home variety, and these homes certainly don't qualify as row homes. The

You don't have to have an amazing memory to remember when the stretch of 13th Street just below South was an embarrassing mix of blight and vacancy. The building on the southwest corner of 13th & South had amazing bones, but looked like garbage, with a boarded up first floor

Barely noticed or remembered today, the creation of the Garfield Duncan Building at Pennsylvania Hospital caused quite the controversy in its time. Now, 40 years since the project started, let’s recall what all the hub-bub was about.
In the early 1970s, Pennsylvania Hospital acquired a group of massive 1830s homes on the

The past few years have brought significant changes to the small square block bounded by York Street, Gaul Street, Belgrade Street, and Gordon Street. Just a handful of years ago, this block included two homes, a meat distributor, and a plumbing business and felt like a snapshot of Fishtown's traditional blend of