This past week we checked out some interesting but slightly confusing development activity at 917 Arch St. thanks to a reader tip. This building definitely has some history, having been home to Stewart, Ralph & Company about a hundred years ago, and also housing the Asam Brothers wallpaper warehouse for a stretch.

If you visited the intersection of 7th & Fairmount just a couple of years ago, you would have discovered a vacant one-story commercial building on the northeast corner and a fenced-in parking lot on the northwest corner. Today it's a different story, with Federal Donuts having taken over the aforementioned commercial

Maybe you love surface parking lots, but if you're a regular reader of this blog you know we aren't into 'em. So we rejoiced a couple years back, when Parkway Corporation, one of the biggest parking lot owners in Philadelphia, partnered with the Hanover Company with plans to redevelop two

When we learned, a couple years back, that the Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ had moved from their longtime home at 1401 Marlborough St. and placed their property on the market, we immediately suspected that developers would step in with a proposal for demolishing the church and replacing it with

Bella Vista is getting some new mansions and now we know what they'll look like. Over the summer, we told you about plans for seven new homes at 711 Bainbridge St., pleased as punch that a surface parking lot would be meeting its maker as a result. From the summer, view

Just a block and a half from the Pearl Theater on Broad Street, the 1600 block of N. Sydenham Street is pretty much in Temple's backyard. You'd think, given the location, that the entire block would be student housing. But it's actually a mix of vacant land, older homes, buildings

Just the other day, we brought some demolition to your attention on the 1500 block of Ridge Avenue, work that will soon pave the way for some new mixed-use buildings on the corridor. We somehow missed another demolition site at 1516 Parrish St., literally around the corner. In the past,

As the Point Breeze neighborhood went through a prolonged downturn, countless handsome buildings fell into disrepair. While many were eventually demolished, others survived but became disfigured over time thanks to suboptimal repair and renovation jobs. But times have changed and the last few years have meant a huge development surge

At some point in the last couple of months, a large warehouse-like structure came down at 5th & Fairmount.In the pastCurrent viewIn its place, US Construction will soon get moving on plans for 36 townhomes, 1 duplex, and a mixed-use building with 5 apartments and ground-floor retail. The project came

Let's try this again.A couple years back, we excitedly told you about plans for forty-eight new homes at 2012 Wharton St., immediately next door to a proposed twenty-two home project at the corner of 20th & Wharton. The latter project ran into some tough sledding at the ZBA, which inspired