
We just told you about a possible Trader Joe's coming to Leithgow & Bainbridge, and now we're going to look a couple miles due north, to the corner of Leithgow & Thompson. This property has been sitting vacant for a number of years, even as South Kensington has experienced a dramatic
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Update: The owner of this property read our story and reached out to us, passing along the message that there is no deal with Trader Joe's for this location. Bummer.
If you've ever visited Philadelphia's lone Trader Joe's on a Saturday afternoon, you'd surely agree that our fine city could use a second location, or maybe a couple
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Several readers have reached out to us over the last few weeks, wondering about some construction activity on the 2100 block of Washington Avenue. Now before you get too excited, we should mention it's on the south side of the street, and there's still nothing happening at the long dormant Chocolate
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We've found ourselves in the Forgotten Bottom neighborhood a handful of times over the years, most prominently when the Dupont Crescent section of the Schuylkill River Trail opened back in 2011. As the name suggests, this small neighborhood is off the beaten path, and it covers only a handful of blocks
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The north side of the 700 block of Lehigh Avenue is home to a suburban style shopping center with a Save-a-Lot, a Family Dollar, a Kicks USA, and a Burger King. Generally, we wouldn't care for such a shopping center, as we prefer smaller businesses that are integrated into the
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Across the street from the Main Street UA 6 sits a collection of old industrial buildings that, until relatively recently, looked like they had been sitting abandoned for years. Workshop of the World tells us that this property, 3737 Main St., was home to the Wilde Yarn Mill, with the first building
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Dranoff Properties has played a significant role in redeveloping South Broad Street over the last decade, with Symphony House, 777 South Broad, and Southstar Lofts all adding height and density to Philadelphia's most famous thoroughfare. Tonight, near neighbors will learn about another proposed Dranoff project, this time at the corner of
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Thanks to roughly three decades of work from Mural Arts, Philadelphia possesses an embarrassment of riches in terms of public visual art. We're no fans of vacant lots or surface parking lots, but when they're adorned by a mural, we tend to find them much more acceptable (it's just when people
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18 August, 2017 | No Comments | Graduate Hospital
The Graduate Hospital neighborhood is home to three garden blocks, the 2300 block of Saint Albans Place, and the 2200 and 2300 blocks of Madison Square. If you live in the area, you're probably aware of these blocks simply from walking around the neighborhood, and if you don't live nearby
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125 N. 10th St. stands as a unique example of a building that has been designated historic both locally and nationally, even though its defining features only date back to the 1970s. According to the nomination to the local register, the building dates back to the 1830s, but none of the
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