A little less than a year ago, we brought 906 N. Broad St. to your attention, dreaming of a better future for the building. We noted the likelihood that it was originally built as a car dealership, but showed you its current blah condition, chopped up into a Family Dollar, a seafood restaurant, and

In just a few short years, Frankford Avenue has exploded as a commercial corridor, and it's happened in a variety of ways. Some businesses have opened in repurposed industrial buildings, like Frankford Hall back in the day and Suraya much more recently. Plenty of other businesses have opened in brand

Our efforts to cover real estate development in Philadelphia take us across the city, from deep in South Philly to Port Richmond to Roxborough. Occasionally though, we're spared the travel when a project happens just down the street from the office. Such is the case with the recent demolition at 1121

Back when Kensington was the Workshop of the World a hundred years ago, industry boomed and the surrounding neighborhoods bustled with factory workers. As the years passed and manufacturers moved away or closed their doors, Kensington fell into a state of disinvestment and the neighborhood became overrun with blighted buildings and vacant lots.

Like so many other blocks in Fishtown, the only constant is change on the 1100 block of E. Hewson Street. We were in that neck of the woods the other day and spied some new homes getting framed at 1120-28 E. Hewson St., on a parcel that was previously worse

Doggie Style opened a location at the southwest corner of 3rd & Poplar over a decade ago, in a junky looking industrial building. This was a great outcome for the property at the time, as it provided neighborhood pet owners with a go-to pet store. Over time, the corner has

Whenever we cover a project on or near Baltimore Avenue, we always look at that project through the lens of how it relates to the commercial corridor. And this makes sense, because Baltimore Avenue and nearby 52nd Street are the centers of commerce in this part of West Philadelphia. But when we present Baltimore

It's no secret that Frankford Avenue has experienced a major boom over the last number of years, with a bunch of new buildings rising and a ton of new businesses opening along the corridor. Has the growth of Frankford Avenue has spurred residential development on surrounding blocks in Fishtown and East

When you consider that 1907-15 Walnut St. has been sitting vacant since the 1990s, any news indicating that the property is a step closer to getting redeveloped is cause for celebration. That being the case, we've got our party hats in hand, as the Civic Design Review packet for this property has

Mount Sinai Hospital occupied almost an entire square block at 4th & Reed, which made it especially troubling for the surrounding neighborhood when the hospital closed its doors in 1997. Since then, the hospital sat vacant and unused, with the exception of a section on the western end of the