It was less than a month ago that we brought 408 Cecil B. Moore Ave. to your attention, noting a zoning application for 146 residential units, 4 retail spaces, and 52 parking spaces. We didn't have much more information at the time, aside from the strong assumption that this project

Last week, Michael Klein sounded the alarm that Elixr was opening a 2nd location at 315 N. 12th St., in the first floor space at the Goldtex Building. The story indicated a soft opening on Thursday, and that they were giving out free coffee. We enjoy free stuff as much

It was about a year ago that we last checked in on the former Abigail Vare school at 1619 E. Moyamensing Ave., a visit that came four years after the school closed its doors and three years after the School District sold the building to the Concordia Group. As we

Historically, the large parcel at 2308 E. Tucker St. was the site of a public bath house, a place that allowed people in the neighborhood to wash themselves in an age before indoor plumbing was commonplace. As personal baths and showers became more of thing, bath houses faded away, and

Just south of the corner of 4th & Thompson stands a stunning edifice that's been mostly mothballed for many years. The building at 1221 N. 4th St. was constructed as Engine House 29 in the 1890s and was used by the fire department for over eighty years, until they opened a new

As much as things have changed in the Rittenhouse neighborhood over the last century or so, the parking garage at the northwest corner of 22nd & Pine has remained a constant. This building has likely caught the eye of just about anyone that's ever walked past this intersection, as it

When we were taking the photos for last week's story about the new dog park / graffiti park where Germantown Ave. hits 5th St., we spied some additional construction just up the block, on the other triangle formed by this intersection. This triangle hasn't hosted a pallet business, but has

The Spring Arts Point project was originally conceived by developer Lawrence Rust over a decade ago as a plan to build a few dozen units on several large assemblages on the eastern side of the West Poplar neighborhood. The first eighteen homes came into focus quickly, on the block bounded

In its heyday, Point Breeze Avenue was a paragon of a neighborhood commercial corridor. According to articles we've read and longtime residents we've spoken with, Point Breeze Avenue had such a diverse array of retail options that people hardly ever had to leave the neighborhood to do their shopping. In today's Age of

If you're traveling from South Kensington to Brewerytown, as we were the other day, might we recommend Master Street as a convenient and clear shot across town? Your first inclination might be to take Girard, but there's all those traffic lights, plus Girard College interrupts the flow of the street. So