A Fishtown resident shot us an email at the end of last week, giving us the heads up about a new project coming down the pike for Frankford Avenue, and it's a biggie. Developers are looking to consolidate 11 lots into one at 1405-21 Frankford Ave., a project which will

A reader tipped us off last week that construction had finally gotten underway at 1326 Mascher St., a long vacant lot in South Kensington. We told you to prepare for this project back in the fall of 2014, and at the time we predicted that construction would get moving rather

There's a small commercial building at 15th & Hamilton, on the eastern edge of the campus for the Community College of Philadelphia, which will soon be on the outs. Had things broken differently, this site could have been the backyard of Philadelphia's second casino, but instead it will be home

Remember 1010 Tasker Street? About six months ago, when we brought this two-story home to your attention, it was on the market for $399K. The price recently came down to a more reasonable $339K, but that's not all that's changed.1010 Tasker StreetWe don't usually single out individual homes listed for

When we told you earlier this week about the upcoming renovation of the Pyramid Electric building at 31st & Glenwood, we made a point about the continuing northward movement of development in Brewerytown. We thought of Oxford Street as the northern border for development at the time, but completely forgot

The 1100 block of Chestnut Street has transformed in the last couple of years, mostly because of a large project from Brickstone on the south side of the block. This project got moving in earnest a couple of years ago, and has made quite a bit of progress in the year since

It seems we've done a lot of lamenting over lost architecture today, so for a moment let's appreciate 2837-39 Cambridge St., an older building that has survived the decades and looks like it was maybe once a fire house, or more likely a carriage house.Wonderful details for this buildingThe building

At the end of last year, we brought you a somewhat sad story of a demolition at 4042 Chestnut St. in West Philadelphia. The old building, dating back to the mid-19th century, was being demolished in favor of a new batch of student housing which was going to make full use of the

If you always wanted to live near the Art Museum and have a spare couple million in your pocket, the Green Street Estates might be your dream come true. But it wasn't always clear that we'd end up with this project at this location. Two years ago, How Properties bought

When you cross the Delaware River on the Ben Franklin Bridge, one of the first exits takes you down 8th Street through the edge of Chinatown. Since the 1960s, a large parking garage has spanned 8th Street between Arch and Filbert Street and it's pretty much looked terrible since the