
The Eagles won a playoff game yesterday (Go Birds!) and quite unexpectedly, the local basketball team was perhaps a bigger story. Since the summer of 2022, we've been writing about 76 Place, the proposed new Sixers arena at 10th & Market. The project went through a few different iterations, required
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There's been a fair amount of development along the Germantown Avenue corridor in South Kensington over the last few years, and the trend doesn't seem to be abating. Assuming that the latest Gretz Brewery redevelopment project proceeds, the action will continue ramping up. With the ZBA signing off on the
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A few months back, we wrote about a pair of apartment buildings proposed for a vacant lot across the street from Frankford Hospital, and acknowledged that it would probably be a while before we saw much more development in this neighborhood, so far up the MFL line. But a four
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We're always happy to see affordable senior housing projects in the development pipeline, but a proposal to adaptively re-use a historic school building in Strawberry Mansion feels like a double win.Completed in 1901 at 2601 N 28th St., the Rudolph Walton elementary school served the local community until being shut
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If you're anything like us, you took a bunch of walks around town over the holidays. Getting more steps in is always one of our New Year's resolutions, so we took the opportunity to stroll around Fishtown last week, right before the calendar flipped. One building we noticed on said
Read MoreFormer Coal Yard on the Mount Airy Border Could Sprout Some Homes
3 January, 2025 | No Comments | Mt. Airy
People living in Northwest Philadelphia probably think of Cresheim Creek as the wooded waterway serving as a border between the verdant neighborhoods of Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill. Today the area around the creek is a bucolic green space, with a walking trail that leads to the Wissahickon. A century
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New year, new you, amirite? Or if you're Philadelphia, maybe it's new year, pretty much the same you, but hopefully we'll do a little better this year. That doesn't look so good on a bumper sticker, alas.Now that we're two days into 2025, it's a great time to reflect on
Read MorePennsylvania Supreme Court Approves Chestnut Hill Apartment Building
31 December, 2024 | No Comments | Chestnut Hill
Did you have more multi-family housing in one of Philadelphia's most charming neighborhoods on your wish list this year? We sure did. And that's why we were so happy to see a positive update a few days ago on a long delayed redevelopment of a former gas station in the
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Manayunk is a neighborhood where people want to live, with its rolling hills, active commercial corridor, and location between downtown and the 'burbs. The neighborhood was once home to a bunch of mills which are, needless to say, no longer in operation. We've seen several former mills get redeveloped over
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We've always been a bit fascinated by 1222 S. 20th St., located just a block from our office and mere steps from the 17th Police District. This building was never winning any architecture awards, but it's an unusual one-story home, perhaps because it was originally built as a stable. At
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