Point Breeze Avenue has seen incremental improvement over the last few years, as new homes have sprouted in the surrounding neighborhood. OCF Coffee House opened a few years ago at the top of the commercial corridor, taking a space in a renovated building which had been blighted for many years.

To the east of Front Street, Fishtown continues to flourish. Ditto South Kensington to the west. As a result, developers continue to look to Front Street even though the El continues to rumble across the elevated tracks every day and night. A couple years ago, we told you about plans

Last fall, we told you about two new homes from Callahan Ward on the 1900 block of E. Cumberland Street, about a block off of Kensington Avenue. Since it was a by-right project, the developers didn't have any renderings for the homes, so you needed to use some imagination to

We've had a couple of readers reach out to us in the last few weeks, wondering about construction at 2318 E. York St., a corner lot that functioned for many years as a side yard for lovely old brownstone.In the pastCurrent view of the propertyDevelopers bought the property about a

People are obsessed with the Divine Lorraine. Perhaps that's why so many folks flipped out about our 2012 April Fools prank, when we declared that the wonderful building, vacant since the mid-1990s, would be demolished. That seems like a really long time ago, as everyone now knows that EB Realty

We've been ringing the bell for Baltimore Avenue for years, regularly telling you about new businesses opening up farther and farther west on the corridor. Most recently, we told you about event space Petite Fete on the 5000 block of Baltimore Avenue, a business that opened in a long-vacant building

Howard Street in North Kensington is getting two more homes. We were in the neighborhood the other day and noticed two homes under construction at 1509-11 N. Howard St., formerly a vacant lot. We'd guess that they've been under construction for the last couple of months and you'd think we'd

A little over a year ago, we told you about a plan for a sixteen story tower and twelve for-sale residential units at 3201 Race St., replacing a surface parking lot and some poorly maintained homes. At the time, the project had already gone through the Civic Design Review process,

If you use the Google Maps Time Machine function to turn back the clock to 2007 and visit the 2200 block of League Street, you'll find a block that was in pretty rough shape. At that time, a smattering of blighted homes and vacant lots were bringing down the block. The

The Putnam Building at 1627 N. 2nd St. is a five-story building that had many uses over the decades, including a spinning mill and an upholstered fur manufacturing business. Since the Kensington South CDC bought the building in the early 2000s, the property has been used for art studio and office space,