Bloktoberfest cannot be stopped, or even contained. And it certainly isn't going to be thrown off by a little drizzle.For those unaware, Bloktoberfest is a massive block party on South Street West featuring live music, beer, food from both trucks and businesses, a kids area, and a bunch of hay

For many years, we delighted in the fact that a pizza place at 43rd & Baltimore thought it was a good idea to call themselves "Wurst House Pizzeria." And it was definitely a sad moment for us back in 2006 when new ownership came in and inaccurately renamed the place

In Francisville, Ridge Ave is slowly turning around. Let us say it again, that redevelopment along Ridge in Francisville is happening, consistently, it seems, but slowly. Near Broad Street, the JBJ Soul Homes development from Project H.O.M.E. represents the largest development on the corridor, but there are several smaller projects coming online deeper in the

The 300 block of Wharton Street is dominated by Saint Casimir's Lithuanian Church, which has been a fixture in the neighborhood for over a hundred years. The associated school closed a few years back and membership has shrunk some, according to the South Philly Review, which led to an administrative

When we last visited the vacant lot at the corner of 43rd & Baltimore, we detailed an exciting plan for a thoughtful and appropriate building that had evolved through a number of community meetings. The Clarkmore Group, with help from U3 Advisors and Cecil Baker Architects, came up with a glass, brick and stone panel building

Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that scorched a warehouse at 1403-09 Darien St. in Passyunk Square this winter, displacing a few Philadelphia bands and destroying some expensive music equipment.East side of Darien St.A few months before the fire, we wrote about developers' plans to demolish the warehouse and

Pennsport is a great place to live. It's a walkable neighborhood, it's close to Center City, near the river, has easy access to the highway, and Target is but a stone's throw away. Perhaps that's why developers have descended upon this neighborhood of late, snapping up medium-sized parcels and building

A vacant lot at Broad & Fitzwater has had some ups and downs in the last couple of years. In early 2013, we told you that the folks who built the Artisan Homes on Bainbridge Street would be developing the parcel, building eight huge homes that would be listed at

We produce so much content here at Naked Philly, sometimes we forget what we've covered and what we haven't. When a reader checked in recently with a rendering for an affordable housing building at 810 Arch St., we couldn't believe we hadn't heard about it. And then we realized that

Between the summer just passed and the last, there's been consistent building along Spring Garden Street in West Philly starting the minute you cross over the Spring Garden Bridge. Closer to the Drexel and Penn campuses, numerous large-scale institutional developments have generally ruled the roost. But deeper into Mantua, smaller