Frankford Avenue possesses an embarrassment of riches when it comes to culinary options, running the gamut of cuisines and price points. This is quite the change from, say, a decade ago, when the corridor was rather depressed and featured an embarrassing quantity of vacant lots and crumbling warehouses. The image

It's quite possible that the old warehouse at 2601 Emerald St. was once a nice enough building, perhaps in its early days as a dye works, and maybe even when it was used by a bottling company through at least the 1960s. As time has passed though, the building has

We've made no secret about out fondness for old movie theaters. More specifically, we have a deep and unabiding love for buildings that once housed movie theaters but have been repurposed for other uses. It's usually pretty easy to spot an old movie house, with an old marquee as a pretty reliable

If you've eaten a burger in a Philadelphia restaurant, there's a decent chance that said burger originated at George L. Wells Meat Company. Wells is a meat, poultry, and seafood purveyor, and they've been doing their thing for over a century. As far as we can tell, they've operated their business out

The 4200 block of Filbert Street seems like it was a city planner's mistake a hundred plus years ago. The incredibly narrow block extends west from 42nd Street, and ends in a dead end before getting halfway to 43rd Street. We looked at historic maps, and the block has always

For whatever reason, the 2100 block of S. Juniper St. has always been mostly industrial and commercial, despite its location next to a residential neighborhood and adjacent to the Passyunk Avenue commercial corridor. The combination of the conditions on the ground and the proximity to the commercial corridor make this

It was maybe half a year ago that we spied some workers doing what looked like ground testing at 1102 N. 2nd St., and it got us wondering whether this large and curiously ignored parcel in Northern Liberties could soon get developed. We explained that the property was owned by Tower

Development timelines can be impossibly tough to predict. Sometimes a project comes together in a linear fashion and hits milestones as expected, progressing from permitting to groundbreaking to completion in short order. Of course, if real estate development was this easy, everybody would probably do it, right? More often than

As the Founding Fathers gathered in the late 1700s to sign the Declaration of Independence and later, to write the United States Constitution, we suspect a common refrain around Independence Hall was "Yo where can I get a good hoagie around here?" Alas, for the last 2 1/2 centuries, or

There's a vacant lot at the intersection of E. Cambria Street and Trenton Avenue which doesn't seem like the poster child for market rate development. This property sits on the fringe of Port Richmond, a neighborhood that seeing developer interest trickle over from Fishtown. But it's also on the edge