Brewerytown is picking up speed. West Girard continues to improve incrementally, with a new place from the Pizza Brain guys coming soon. Developers are building new homes and renovating vacant buildings at an accelerating pace. MM Partners is doing their thing. Ditto Westrum, with over a hundred new apartment units

Nobody would argue the point that Delancey Street in Center City is one of Philadelphia's ritziest addresses, which makes the perpetual blight at the corner of 18th & Delancey all the more striking. We first brought 325 S. 18th St. to your attention almost five years ago, but we've had

Bella Vista and Queen Village are a mess right now thanks to a bunch of road work, but the 500 block of Bainbridge Street was closed today thanks instead to real estate development. Two projects are simulaneously under construction on this block, and they're rather different from one another. First,

We don't often find ourselves in the Fairhill section of Philadelphia, which likely explains why we've never encountered 2809 Germantown Ave., a wonderful building originally constructed for the Mutual Trust Company bank.Amazing buildingAnother viewAh, just look at that facade. The columns! The stone work! The cornice! We can only imagine

If you didn't notice the sign on the fence, you could believe that the ongoing construction at the corner of 23rd & Washington is a fabulous example of progress and a step in the right direction for a corridor that's begging for mixed-use development. If you then read the sign,

A reader reached out to us about half a year ago, pointing out an interesting property at 126 Dickinson St. that was, at the time, listed for sale. Six months later, the property is still available. Still, the fact that it's a huge parcel in Pennsport gives us an indication

From groundbreaking to certificate of occupancy, it usually takes about six months, give or take, to build a new home in Philadelphia. If the home is really large, perhaps it will take a little more time, and this makes sense. More house should mean more time is needed for construction.

It's been non-stop construction for the 1700 block of South Broad Street over the last year and a half, but the light at the end of the tunnel is shining more brightly with every passing day. The western side of this block was home for many years to the South Philadelphia Neighborhood Library, Health

Passing by the Hub buildings the other day, we happened upon a vacant lot that we weren't expecting to find. Until very recently, you'd have seen two Frank Furness designed Victorian twins at 3935 and 3937 Chestnut St., sitting in the shadow of the newer Hub building.View in the past

The changes around the intersection of 16th & Parrish are symptomatic of what's been happening in Francisville as a whole over the last several years. For quite some time, the eastern side of 16th Street was dominated by a combination of vacant land and an overgrown and abandoned construction site.