One of our first predictions for 2017 was that North Broad Street would take a major step forward this year, and it didn't even take two weeks for news to emerge that supports this expectation. Hey, when you're good, you're good.Yesterday, Philadelphia Business Journal published a story (behind a pay wall)

We've had a couple of readers reach out over the last month or two, wondering about the huge property at 59 Leverington Ave., where a building that had been home to a kennel and perhaps more famously Rambo's Ice House, was recently demolished. This property is in a curious location,

Over the summer, we heard from a reader in South Kensington that developers had purchased a former church on the 1200 block of N. Hancock Street. When we trekked over there, we found a nice enough looking building at 1217 N. Hancock St. that seemed like it would lend itself

We've had a bit of a fixation with the property at 1804 E. Passyunk Ave., first writing about it five years ago, encouraging anybody and everybody to lease the large property in the heart of the Passyunk Avenue commercial corridor. The building had been home to a pharmacy for years,

Roughly three years ago, we considered the case of 1401 S. Columbus Blvd., wondering how the site would be redeveloped after plans for a casino were officially 86-ed. Two years later, we confirmed that Tower Investments had purchased the property and Bart Blatstein was considering a plan for a shopping

The cider business is exploding in America, with exponential growth over the last half dozen years. And as the Philadelphia area has a thriving local brewery scene, it should come as no surprise that the local cidery scene is on the rise. Still, we must admit that we'd never heard of

When we last visited the block bounded by 4th, 5th, Reed, and Dickinson Streets about six months ago, we noted that the demolition of the former Mount Sinai Hospital was entering its home stretch. At the same time, we were surprised to see that construction had already began for Southwark

On Shurs Lane, near Mitchell Street, we told you earlier this week that the Ugly Moose closed its doors after a 15 year run and its building will soon be demolished and replaced with 21 townhomes. While we were in the area, we noticed some site work happening around the

We were making our way back to town from Manayunk and due to some (entirely expected) traffic on I-76, we decided to take the scenic route, Ridge Avenue. We've already told you about the supermarket coming soon to Ridge Avenue. And it's well known that PHA will be moving its

We were passing through Brewerytown the other day and noticed the back of a blighted building on Marston Street through a vacant lot on 27th Street.Blight seen through a vacant lot on 27th StreetTurning the corner, we immediately remembered that we had written about this block previously, a little over