With all the recent action on Front Street in Northern Liberties, Fishtown, and South Kensington, it's no surprise that people who own properties on this long underperforming stretch are hoping to cash out. One particularly sizable example can be found at 1523 N. Front St., between Jefferson and Oxford Streets.Lots

Over the summer, while attending a wedding in Connecticut, we stayed at a cute hotel in New Haven called The Study at Yale. Next to the elevator, there was an easel with a rendering of a future hotel, The Study at University City. It's like they knew we were coming!Project

The Royal Theater was built almost a hundred years ago at 1524 South St. and in its heyday was a center for African American culture in Philadelphia. Since 1970 though, it's been vacant and slowly wasting away. Plans have come and gone over the years to bring the theater back

We were driving through Roxborough last week, and spotted some new construction from maybe a quarter of a mile away. This is what happens when developers build on the top of a hill. When we were finally in front of 4004 Pechin St., we discovered two new homes that were

Last fall, we first told you about plans for development at the corner of 7th & Thompson. Out was a long vacant lot, in were four single family homes and a corner building with a retail space and two apartments above. When we passed by the site in January, framing

Queen Lane Apartments is a sixteen-story anachronism, tracing back to a time that planners thought that public housing towers in Philadelphia would be a good idea. In the last two decades, many PHA towers have been demolished and replaced with town home developments, including at Southwark, MLK, and most recently

We've written about 2835-37 W. Girard Ave. twice before, once to bring the blighted property to your attention and a second time to inform the world that it was for sale. For those unfamiliar with the property's history, it suffered a fire around 2008 and has been vacant ever since.

For at least a decade and surely much longer, a pet store has held down the retail space at 27-29 S. 40th St., near Penn's campus. But over that last decade, there have been plenty of changes to the surrounding area with the most notable being the construction of the

Over the summer, we shared the news that Lily Development was planning seven new homes over the 700 blocks of Bainbridge and Kater Streets. Some kind of residential development on these parcels makes perfect sense. 739-41 Bainbridge St. was an unattractive garage for many years that's now been demolished. 734-38

Standing at the corner of 22nd & Spring Garden, there's a couple of things that should catch your eye.Most notable is the ongoing demolition effort of the former Best Western Hotel on the southeastern corner. Back in July, we noticed a fence around this property and thought that demolition could