We last checked on the corner where Oxford hits Frankford Avenue back in the spring, when we told you that developers had purchased 1546 Frankford Ave. and were planning a serious renovation of the property. Passing by the other day, that effort looks like it's mostly finished. If you can

It's been a bit of a slow burn on the southeast corner of 15th & Walnut, where a new building is finally rising after years of planning. We first told you that three buildings on this corner would be demolished back in 2012, and brought you a rendering of the

We don't see it too often, but every now and then we find out about construction in Packer Park, near the stadiums. Recently, a reader, perhaps on his way to see the Sixers lose, came upon four homes under construction on the 3200 block of Chaucer Street. This seemed odd,

The pasty building at 718-724 S. 2nd St. has looked awful for many years. Most recently, Queen Village neighbors hired a lawyer to make sure a new developer who started work on the building this fall without community involvement was doing it safely.Several weeks agoFor at least the past eight years,

Many neighborhoods in Philadelphia have experienced dramatic improvement of late, but the city still has a remarkable blight problem. Depending on who you ask, we've got somewhere between forty and sixty thousand vacant blighted properties scattered around Philadelphia. Demolition costs for all those properties would easily exceed $500M, even conservatively.

On and around East Chestnut Street, the dominoes continue to fall.The 1100 block is in the midst of a major transformation, with Brickstone creating 115 new apartments and a ton of new retail through a combination of renovation and new construction on the south side of the block. And maybe a Trader

Too often, as West Philly has seen more than its share of new student housing rise over the last several years, developers have skimped on the design side of things, opting for function over form. It's not that the new apartment buildings in the neighborhood are unattractive per se, but

The intersection of 13th & Locust has long been a thriving and commercially dense area.  However, our interest is with a corner at which very little of great importance seemed to take place prior to the 20th century.  The image here below, taken from G.W. Bromley’s 1895 Philadelphia Atlas, shows a southeast

It might be awhile before developers have a chance to appear before the Fishtown Neighbors Association zoning committee for their proposal to transform a large corner vacant parcel at 623 E Girard Ave. into a new mixed-use building.Developers from Ascender Investments failed to appear for a scheduled appearance with the FNA

It was more than a year ago that we first broke the news that a bunch of new homes were soon to rise on the 2100 block of Walnut Street at the intersection with Van Pelt Street. Back then, developers from Conservatory Group USA had presented plans for the construction of