We confess, we'd never visited the 2200 block of Wilder Street before last week. What we found when we trekked over there was a mixed block with some well maintained two-story homes, a few blighted properties, and a ton of vacant land. Our visit was spurred by a reader, who

At 1325 Beach St., next to Penn Treaty Park, sits an amazing building that was constructed almost a hundred years ago. The Delaware Generating Station was designed by John Windram, the same guy that designed the Franklin Institute. If the power plant were located in a similarly trafficked area, it

This must a record- two visits to the area around Temple in one week, and nothing about student housing. Today, we come back to a project that we first told you about two and a half years ago. On the southwest corner of 16th & Oxford, a large old building was

Last week's community meeting about plans for forty-six homes at 2012 Wharton Street went pretty much as you would have expected. Roughly sixty people showed up, a representative from JKRP Architects presented the project, people from the crowd asked questions about affordability, other people aggressively asked about why it can't

It's no secret that development in Fishtown and East Kensington has been quite strong in recent years, evident from that fact that we're generally covering something in one of those neighborhoods every few days. As those neighborhoods have become more saturated with projects, and as prices have slowly (or quickly)

Development has claimed another victim in East Kensington, and this time it's a vacant lot on the 2400 block of Coral Street. This isn't our first visit to this block- when we last visited about a year and a half ago, we spied three homes under construction from BMK Homes

Ridiculous light masts aside, the last few years have been very very good to North Broad Street. We've actually lost count of the number of buildings that have been repurposed as apartments, adding new residents and a vibrancy that had been missing here for decades. The lastest addition to the

As recently as five years ago, the south side of Oxford Street between Howard and Mascher Streets was a large vacant lot, and the building immediately to the east was home to a lamp factory that looked like crap. What a difference a few years has made for this small

We last checked in on the Ingersoll Commons project about a year and a half ago, when construction fences had just appeared at a long-vacant lot at 16th & Master. This lot had been owned by City agencies since the 1980s, and a few years back Community Ventures was selected as

People have been buzzing about Philly Style Bagels ever since they started doing pop-ups on Sunday mornings at Pizzeria Beddia. But we never got to sample the goods because they always sold out before we found our way over there. But now they've opened a retail operation at 1451 E.