
We moved to South Philly a little less than a decade ago and quickly discovered a new Mexican place at 12th & Passyunk & Morris called Cantina Los Caballitos. As the years have passed, this intersection has seen all kinds of change. El Zarape has come and gone, with the excellent
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The southwest corner of 17th & Christian has been a mess for as long as we can remember. It was over four years ago that we first brought this property to your attention, lamenting its persistently blighted condition and enormous tax delinquency. We urged the owners of the property to
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Have you always wanted to live in the Washington Square West neighborhood but you've never been able to find the right home for you? Do you have many millions of dollars and a craving for new construction? Would you also dig on the idea of building a dream home for
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A century ago, the 900 block of Marshall Street was home to a bustling outdoor market, with hundreds of pushcart vendors hawking all manner of products. By the time the 1960s rolled around, the changing neighborhood and the threat of an urban renewal plan meant an end to the pushcarts
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Grays Ferry has seen some amount of redevelopment in the last few years, but most of it has been limited to the northern and eastern section of the neighborhood. That's why we were fairly shocked to hear from a reader that spotted zoning notices at a vacant lot at 3229
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Things sure have changed in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood in the last decade. Back then, vacant homes still dotted the streets and some large parcels remained, ripe for redevelopment. There were a few more churches, too. Today, but a handful of vacant lots remain and we can't think of too
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A formerly wooded stretch of Manayunk Avenue is slowly transforming into a row of new homes. In the past, this side of the 4000 block of Manayunk Avenue looked like this:In the pastIf you pass by today though, you'll see a very different scene.Second phase of homes have gray brickNews
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It was almost exactly two years ago that we brought a development opportunity to your attention at 1713-15 Fairmount Ave., after we noticed 'For Sale' signs posted on an old garage and vacant lot next door to Stone's Beverage Center. About a year and a half later, we learned that MJL Properties had
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There's another small project coming to East Kensington, but we're not exactly sure what it'll look like. Today we spied a zoning notice at 2023 E. Letterly St., a vacant lot on a block that sits between Coral and Emerald Streets. Homes only line one side of the block, with
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Zipping down Delaware Avenue today, definitively not on our way to Sugarhouse, a billboard advertising a real estate auction stopped us in our tracks.Sign that caught our attentionIn case you can't get a good look from the sign, it's announcing that a 65K sqft parcel with CMX-3 zoning is going
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