
2110 E. Norris St. is a pie-slice-shaped property that sits a few steps away from Front Street, behind the Liberty Choice convenience store and Five Sisters ice cream. It's possible you've noticed the warehouse building on the property as you've traveled down Norris Street, but it's even more prominently viewed from
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The southeast corner of 7th & Christian is home to a building that's clearly got some historic relevance, the Banca Calabrese building. We told you all about this building's history a few years back, noting that it was one of several banks established in the early 20th century that catered to
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A reader pinged us the other day, letting us know that a sign is now posted at the corner of Leithgow & Thompson, advertising an upcoming development called Moderna 9 on Leithgow. We told you about this property last summer, noting some zoning notices and lamenting that the developers had
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By the time architect Willis G. Hale shuffled off this mortal coil in 1907, he had designed 115 buildings in Philadelphia. As much as it feels like we're bad at preservation today, things were so much worse before. And as a result, only a handful of Hale's buildings have survived through the
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We've covered several Orens Brothers projects over the years, like their successful redevelopment of Croydon Hall at 49th & Locust. Shortly after they wrapped that project, we told you about another significant project from this developer on the 4400 blocks of Chestnut and Ludlow Streets. The plans called for roughly
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Once you get past Washington Ave., Grays Ferry Avenue serves a few purposes, like access to Southwest Philly, the location for the neighborhood supermarket, and the site of the "central" post office in 19146. Otherwise, it's nothing to write home about, with fast moving cars and various industrial businesses making the
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Looking back on our childhood, we hated going to I. Goldberg. A trip to Goldberg's meant it was time for a new jacket or a new backpack or a tent for a family camping trip, and shopping in general was no fun back then. Years later, we remember meandering through the
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A couple years back, we showed you some demolition activity on the north side of the 2300 block of Fairmount, and told you about plans for a new mixed-use building from Loonstyn Properties. In case you've forgotten, the project called for three retail spaces on the first floor, 33 units on
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The 76ers have played their home games at the Wells Fargo Center since 1996, having spent the previous twenty-nine seasons at the Spectrum. Well, that's not exactly accurate. In point of fact, the arena was known as the CoreStates Center when it first opened, then got the First Union Center moniker (loved this one), transitioned to
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It was a little more than two years ago that we shared the news that the First Colored Wesley Methodist Church at 17th & Fitzwater was listed for sale for $3M. The congregation has an incredibly rich history which dates back roughly 200 years, and has spanned half a dozen locations. Their most recent location, the
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