For many years, the Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine on South Broad Street has been planning the Cascia Center, "a place of healing, reflection, and assistance for all people." Loosely translated, the facilities at Saint Rita's weren't sufficient to accommodate all of their needs and they require a new building for large

Recently, on a jaunt to East Kensington, we spotted three new homes under construction on the 1900 block of E. Arizona Street. There's a rough-looking one-story building at the end of this block, where it hits Emerald Street, with a homemade street sign that declares this Beer Belly Boulevard. Sounds

Leaving Fishtown the other day after enjoying a delicious Philly Style Bagel, we zipped across Palmer Street into South Kensington and some construction immediately caught our eye. We aren't sure what 1737 N. Howard St. was being used for previously but whatever it was, it isn't being used for that

Pennsport's Mount Sinai Hospital is almost entirely gone. The building had sat vacant for several years while different developers considered various reuse options for the large building at 4th & Reed, but it was the Concordia Group that, in the end, came up with a project for this site that involved demolishing

Anyone who is as obsessed with development news as we are was thrilled when we heard recently that the old West Philadelphia High School is finally being redeveloped after roughly five years of vacancy. The school moved into a new facility at 49th & Chestnut in September 2011. The original

Change is coming to Washington Avenue, it's just a matter of when.Over the last several years, there have been a number of large mixed-use projects proposed for Washington Avenue west of Broad Street, but none have yet materialized. From what we know, 1601 Washington has been sitting in legal hell

It was back in the summer of 2014 that we first told you about development plans for 2412 E. Gordon St., a rather large parcel which was at that time home to an out-of-place one-story rancher.Just a couple years agoBack then, developers had come to the community with a plan

Today of all days would be a lousy day to visit Schuylkill River Park, but it's been a mild enough winter that perhaps you've found yourself over there at some point in the last couple of months. And if you have indeed ended up there, you've probably noticed that the

It seems like the renovation of the former YWCA building at 1605 Catharine St. has been in the works forever. It was way back in the summer of 2011 that we first told you that the building was available for sale for $2.2M, discussing the opportunity presented by such a

The 1600 block of South Street has become much more delicious in the last couple of years as a bevy of new restaurants have joined the South Street West corridor. Tio Flores was the most recent addition, opening a few months back at the corner of 16th & South in