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

Roughly a week and a half ago, we shared the news that 408 Cecil B. Moore Ave. will likely be redeveloped from a pallet business into a mixed-use building with 146 apartments, some retail, and a bunch of parking. This project is a no brainer for just about everyone. Residential

Most of downtown Philadelphia is organized on a grid, thank goodness, which makes it really easy for tourists and locals alike to get around town. An extension of this idea, the grid is helpful for developers too, as it generally results in rectangle-shaped lots, which helps produce those desirable right angles

As development in Northern Liberties continues to fill in remaining vacant lots and former industrial spaces, the success of its redevelopment continues to bleed into the surrounding neighborhoods. As we've detailed, the growth in the neighborhood has extended beyond 6th Street into East Poplar, and has influenced the Franklin-Callowhill industrial

On lower Main Street, after the movie theater, the unfortunate BridgeFive condo building, and the CVS that would fit in nicely in Cherry Hill, stands an old stone building which was originally built as a carriage house for a nearby mansion. In more recent times, the building was home to

</seinfeld voice>But seriously, isn't it a little odd that 300 Christian St. is sitting undeveloped? It's a sizable parcel, measuring just shy of 10K sqft. These days, developers are gobbling up any and all vacant land in areas much farther from Center City and building stuff. And this is Queen

When we saw on the zoning calendar that 1343 Fitzwater St. was seeking a variance, we immediately suspected that the empty lot on the northwest corner of Watts & Fitzwater was getting redeveloped. But this wasn't an accurate suspicion.1343 Fitzwater St. is actually the northeast corner of this intersection, a