The Graduate Hospital has seen a lengthy list of churches face the wrecking ball in the last handful of years, including the Metropolitan AME church at 20th & Fitzwater, the Varick AME church at 19th & Catharine, and Mount Olive AME at 19th & Fitzwater. All of these buildings were architecturally

A reader reached out the other day, wondering about some recently-started framing at 2319 Amber St. in East Kensington. It turns out we covered this property a little over a year ago, shortly after developers bought it and tore down the auto garage that had made its home here for

We know we haven't checked in on Front Street in the last month or two, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still seeing its share of development action. Today, we look at some likely redevelopment at 1523 N. Front St., a building that we told you about two years

Though we could do without the stucco job and utter lack of architectural detail, we'd still contend that the southeast corner of 16th & Catharine is improved from its previous state. For many years, this property was home to a two-story building with a corner store on the first floor

Raise your hand if, at some point in the last decade or more, you've wandered past 325 S. 18th St. and wondered how there could possibly be a blighted and vacant building here, at one of the most desirable locations in town.<Looking around, seeing a ton of hands in the

The spread of development in East Kensington isn't limited to large projects, we're also seeing it in the construction of one-off homes around the neighborhood. Given the number of little vacant lots sprinkled around, this isn't terribly surprising. Today, we look at two properties on Emerald Street that are in

The other day, we happened upon a wee bit of construction on the 2300 block of E. Fletcher St., between Cedar and Memphis Streets. Looking at Google Street View, we see that 2336 E. Fletcher St. was previously a green one-story garage. Developers purchased the building, tore it down, and

The Ivy Ridge assisted living facility sat vacant and blighted at 5627 Ridge Ave. for quite some time, and we were pleased as punch to see it demolished a little over three years ago. You may recall, we told you that developers were planning a project called Kingsley Court in

Last week, we told you that some old buildings had disappeared on Berks Street, and a new condo project would soon rise behind the shopping center on East Girard Avenue that's home to Beer City and a Dunkin Donuts. To say the least, this shopping center isn't exactly monument to

The 2000 block of Wharton Street is changing and many more changes are on the horizon. First, let's look closer to Point Breeze Avenue where we can see four new homes have been built within the last year or so. Just a couple years ago, three of these four lots