We don't get to Parkside very often, mostly because it's a bit of a hike for us and there's just not that much development to report in the neighborhood. But a reader gave us a shout the other day and told us about some construction activity at 52nd & Parkside,

Scoops is exactly the kind of business you wish you had around the corner from your house. It's got delicious ice cream and snacks, low prices, and the owners have been in the neighborhood forever. With their building at 812 E. Thompson St. selling last year though, it could be

The controversy sparked by a Toll Brothers plan to demolish a row of buildings on the eastern side of Jewelers Row could encourage a different developer to move forward more aggressively with another development on this corridor. In case you haven't been following the saga, Toll Brothers owns 702-710 Sansom

We're pretty sure that the building at 1132 N. Front St. was originally part of the Dougherty distillery, which operated on this block through the beginning of the 20th century, according to Hidden City. In later years, the building was used as a spice factory, though for at least the last

The 2000 block of Lombard Street is unlike any other in the city, with the Lombard Swim Club covering about half of the south side and a large parking garage taking up about a third of the north side of the block, and a bunch of homes filling things out.

Inspired by a reader tip, we took a trip up to the beautiful riverside neighborhood of East Falls the other week. 3460 Midvale Ave. was once the property of Redeemer Lutheran Church, which was closed after a sad and politically messy property rights battle between the congregation and the Lutheran Synod

We were looking throught the zoning calendar for this month and we were surprised to see that the property at 614 N. Front St. is scheduled for a ZBA hearing in the coming weeks. Currently, this double wide property is half one-story building and half two-story building, though we couldn't

Wharton Square Park should be a gem in Point Breeze, a block sized green space on the western side of the neighborhood. You'd think that the homes surrounding the park on 23rd, 24th, Wharton, and Reed Streets would be among the most sought after in the neighborhood, but we'd say

"Meet me at the corner of Wawa and Starbucks," is what someone will probably say about the intersection of 22nd & South, sometime in 2018.Yes folks, South Street West has gone corporate as Starbucks opened its doors a couple days ago on the northwest corner of 22nd & South, in

The 3000 block of W. Cabot Street is getting there. If we turn back the clock to 2011, we find a mere ten homes on this little Brewerytown block, with 60% of those homes blighted and vacant (that's 6 out of 10, for those bad at mental math).Back in 2011At