Nobody likes to see old buildings get torn down. Just over the last few years, Philadelphia has seen a torrent of demolitions, with old churches getting torn down at an unprecedented rate. Take, for example, the former New Light Beulah Baptist Church, which has made its home in a building at

Every now and again, a large piece of prime real estate becomes available in Center City, and all the big developers surely take notice. Such is surely the case with 500-510 S. Broad St., the 40K sqft parcel that's been home to Health Center No. 1 for the last few decades.

We were on our way to Reading Terminal Market the other day when a demolition notice caught our eye as we zipped down 12th Street. The notice, along with a Stop Work Order, was posted on 214 N. 12th St., a nice enough building that's ultimately an edifice that we don't think anybody

Do we ever love a good zombie project. When we use this term, we're referring to projects that we covered long ago that never happened, and then years later they suddenly move forward, and it's as if they rose from the dead. Zombie project. Get it?But let's not get distracted

We needed to make a run to the Post Office today and happened upon an unexpected zoning notice at the southwest corner of 27th & Federal. Developers bought the property a little over a year ago, paying a mere $22K for the long vacant parcel, and now they're looking to build

After closing the Abigail Vare School at 1619 E. Moyamensing Ave. in 2013, the Philadelphia School District put the property up for sale in 2014, ultimately selecting the Concordia Group as the buyer. If the name of this developers sounds familiar, it's because they're involved in another project in Pennsport, the Southwark on

A reader reached out to us recently, wondering about some demolition activity on the 600 block of Union Street, which is just north of the 3900 block of Haverford Avenue. We figured we'd investigate, as development would sense on this block given the amount of new construction we've seen nearby

It seems we're covering a lot of demolition these days. But this one doesn't hurt as much as the Bair Funeral Home or the Unification Family Church, as it involves a relatively unimpressive building that was already altered beyond recognition. If you visit 2nd & Washington, you'll notice that the building on the

Developers have been trying to demolish the historic former Oliver H. Bair Funeral Home at 1918-20 Sansom St. for years, and Southern Land Company has finally succeeded where others have failed. This property, along with the neighboring Warwick Apartments and Rittenhouse Coffee Shop buildings, has been in the demolition cross hairs for years because it's

A recent thread on the UrbanPHL Facebook page drew our attention to an upcoming demolition on 41st Street in West Philadelphia, and as you can guess from the name of the group, the response was rather negative. The property in question is 123 S. 41st St., a nice looking building on the edge