Over the summer, we told you that the former home of Joy Chinese Restaurant at 723 N. 19th St. had been listed for sale and then gone under agreement in less than two weeks. At the time, we wondered about the future of this little building, which we suspected was once

Ugly Moose closed its doors just before the calendar flipped, ending a 15 year run at 443 Shurs Ln. in Roxborough. This closing did not come as a surprise, with buzz about it since the fall and the bar actively counting down the days until the end. Still, for those

On a mild day over the weekend, we took a stroll around the West Powelton area of West Philly, a neighborhood which has been seeing tremendous construction of aesthetically questionable but undoubtedly useful student housing in recent years. During our walk, we happened upon an old abandoned apartment building-turned-church at 437

About a year and a half ago, we told you about an amazing old building available for sale at the corner of Broad & York and encouraged you to buy it, if you're into that sort of thing. And it's quite possible this story inspired somebody out there, as the building

Historically, if you'd ask an incoming freshman at Penn where they'd like to live, it was a pretty safe bet that they wouldn't offer up Hill College House as their first choice. There are many reasons for this, including the hilariously small rooms, the dated interiors, and a less central

Though Pennsport has seen several nice-sized projects get built in the last few years, the neighborhood retains a surprising number of properties that could accommodate significant projects in the future. Just a couple weeks ago, for example, we told you about plans for a 52-unit mixed-use project on a 35K

It's a new year, folks! 2016 was a roller coaster, with some amazing ups, some enormous downs, and more celebrity deaths than we'd like to think about. With the calendar turning to a new page, let's look toward the future and try to come up with some predictions for the

Happy New Year, from us to you.And would it be too much to ask for maybe a monthlong moratorium on celebrity deaths?Please and thank you.

It was almost exactly a year ago that we shared the news that the Summit at University City project was finished at 34th & Lancaster, and that businesses were starting to move into the project's numerous retail spaces. As we brought you that worthwhile update, we also discovered some new

2017 could be the year that the western side of Washington Avenue finally starts to take off. Within the last couple of months, we've seen dirt start moving at the long vacant northwest corner of Broad & Washington, in anticipation of the Lincoln Square project. Ten blocks to the west,