Disclaimer: The following story is pure speculation and we're writing it without any inside information whatsoever. That being said, if any of this comes true, you heard it here first.You might have seen the reports, a couple weeks back, that Paladin Healthcare has a deal in place to purchase Saint Christopher's

If you were a longtime regular, everybody knew your name at Yesterday's Tavern at the corner of Huntingdon & Gaul in Olde Richmond. Yesterday's was a no frills neighborhood corner spot and one of a slowly dying breed of smoking bars in town, but for many in the area, it was

The 1500 block of N. Stillman St. is way up into Brewerytown, three blocks from Girard Avenue and closer to the PHA Sharswood construction than it is to most of the market rate development in the area. Despite this block being a little off the beaten path, Design Pro Development

We don't know whether it's true, but it sure feels like people are eating healthier these days. Farmer's markets have proliferated all over the city and it seems that every coffee shop in town offers a CSA pickup. Whole Foods opened a huge new location at the end of last year,

1402 Ellsworth St. is a roughly 1,500 sqft vacant lot in Point Breeze which is pretty much irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but somehow we've written about it three times previously. And now here we go, writing about it again. To provide a little history, we first wrote

Spruce Hill has some of the most beautiful architecture in the city, with a mix of Victorian homes, Gothic apartment buildings, and more decorative columns than you can shake a stick at. At the intersection of 46th & Spruce, we see examples of some of the types of buildings that make

There's a row of seven town homes at 2700 South St. which catch our eye every time we cross over the South Street Bridge, mostly because looking at them is a much more enjoyable experience than looking at the monolithic AT&T Building across the street. These homes are also very

We were driving around North Philly the other day, hot on the trail of a reader tip regarding some new construction on Tioga Street, near Temple Hospital. While we didn't find the construction we were looking for, we did stumble upon a rather unique building on 17th Street, just south

The Liberty Title & Trust Building at 101 N. Broad St. was built in 1929, rather unfortunate timing for a bank building. Over the years, it was home to a number of different tenants, with the Water Department being the most recent occupant. That was back in the 1990s though, and the

We've had our eye on the 5000 block of Baltimore Avenue for awhile now, watching as it has slowly improved. We've seen new businesses open on the block, like bar-restaurant Booker's, event space Petit Fete, and artsy gift shop Vix Emporium. We've seen plans come and go without coming to