Little known fact: It's actually illegal to park your car in the median on South Broad Street.Normal view at Broad & Mifflin, looking southYeah, we know, everyone does it, and they've probably been doing it since well before we were born. But that doesn't mean that the practice should continue.

Last fall, we told you about plans from Callahan Ward for five new homes for 309-311 Green St., a Tetris-shaped parcel with minimal frontage on Green Street, despite the address. The homes, designed by Interface Studio Architects, represented an upgrade for this property, which had been sitting vacant for many years.

We told you about plans for a new mixed-use building at 7th & Kater a little over a year ago, generally pleased that a more productive use would be soon be coming to this corner. This property was a large garage at the time, and had been used to house

We're big proponents of attending community zoning meetings, as it helps you understand what's coming to your neighborhood and provides you with a forum to comment on projects that might have a direct impact on your life. Sometimes though, this practice might result in you sitting for hours in a

Our inner child shed some tears today when we discovered ongoing demolition activity at 208-12 N. 21st St., a building we visited many times back in the day when it housed the Please Touch Museum. We've known this was coming for the last few months, but that didn't make it easier to

It’s a zoo out here, we thought as we fanned our faces with our notebooks in vain the other week. The tour guide was telling us all sorts of interesting snippets of information about the area, but our heat-addled brains could barely concentrate. One of the other people on the

It's quite possible that the R.B. Dutt Company dye works at 1736 Mascher St. was a very impressive edifice a century ago, but it's certainly not making any "best of" lists nowadays. A company called Interior Creations has been based out of this property in recent years, building custom furniture

The story at 601 Christian St. has taken several turns since we last checked in on the property at the end of last year. In case you're walking into the movie halfway through, here's some background: Current viewA gas station sat on this triangular parcel for many years, and about half

There's a building on the northeast corner of 3rd & Girard that we suspected was sitting vacant for many years.In the pastUh, our bad. It turns out the building at 1201 N. 3rd St. has been in use as a master carpentry shop, so says a listing for the property

As Brewerytown hit incredibly hard times over the last few decades, many blocks in the neighborhood fell into serious disrepair, with several experiencing wholesale demolition of vacant properties in the interest of public safety and blight removal. The 1200 block of N. Etting St. is an excellent example of this