For a block that's a bit off the beaten path, we sure have visited the 2500 block of Montrose Street a bunch of times over the years. It was back in 2011 that we first brought you to this block to tell you about plans for a project called Montrose

A couple of readers emailed us this week, giving us the heads up that developers have purchased the property at 1300 S. Front St., a 35K sqft parcel that had been home to the Freda Meats for as long as we can remember. The property is massive, taking up over

Until a couple of years ago, the 4000 block of Chestnut Street boasted four nearly identical pairs of Italianate twins designed by Thomas H. Powers and built shortly after the Civil War. A little over a year ago, University Realty demoed the buildings at 4042-44 Chestnut St. and have since built a

News flash, Ridge Avenue is changing. Okay, this isn't as much a news flash as it is a reminder of the drum we've been beating for several years. But just because it's old news doesn't mean it's irrelevant or not worth mentioning regularly. After all, some blocks on Ridge have

We were cruising down Fabric Row the other day and spotted an orange sign at 768 S. 4th St., a building at the corner of 4th & Fulton. We'd have to imagine that a fabric store of some kind once made its home on the first floor of this building,

Though East Girard has gotten much of the press over the last few years, West Girard has experienced serious growth as well, most notably with the opening of the supermarket a five years back at 2nd Street. Aside from that large project that included the market, we've seen many existing

Compared to the pace of construction from a few years ago, there's not much development happening in the neighborhoods around Temple these days. You can probably chalk that up to a combination of a shrinking supply of vacant land and a growing supply of new student housing which could translate

It's been a whole year since we last checked in on 1911 Walnut St., the embarrassingly vacant lot across the street from Rittenhouse Square. For those that don't remember the history of this parcel, it was previously home to some historic brownstones and a movie theater which were all lost

Saint Mary of the Assumption, a Catholic Church located on a large campus at 171 Conarroe St. in Manayunk, closed its doors a little over a year ago. This came just a few years after the archdiocese merged Saint Mary's with the St. John the Baptist parish in response to dwindling

As we were triumphantly returning home from a successful trip to the new Fresh Grocer over the weekend, we spied a pile of bricks on the 2700 block of Federal Street, just off of Grays Ferry Avenue. We initially figured this to be the site of the (maybe) upcoming Marval