For decades, the eastern stretch of South Street has possessed an interesting and diverse retail mix. The Mood, located at 531 South St., was a common stop on the window shopping expressway of South Street, and apparently people sometimes actually purchased adult novelties there as well. We were in the

For years, Springfield Beer Distributor was a beacon of hope for beer lovers, sitting conveniently under the South Street bridge and willing to deliver the kegs to your door. A shiver went through the neighborhood a few years back when people learned that CHOP would be building a large facility

Well this is embarrassing. We could have sworn we told you about plans for new homes at 609 N. 3rd St. at some point in the past. But alas, we never did. So today we're trying to make amends with some details on a project that's already under construction.Remember earlier

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about plans for a new apartment building at 4213 Chester Ave., around the corner from the District 3 Health Center and mere steps from Clark Park. Previously, a West Philly twin stood here, and our initial expectation was for a building with

Who wouldn't want to live at 22nd & Aspen? It's a wonderful Fairmount location right across the street from Eastern State Penitentiary. The Art Museum is just a few blocks away. The Fairmount Avenue corridor is nearby, with some wonderful restaurants and coffee shops.But despite the very favorable location, an

Last summer, the middle of the 4200 block of Powelton Ave. was a big vacant lot where a blighted building had been demolished. A year later, we observed an interesting looking project called Bigham Place, the exterior of which was nearly completed. When it's finished, Bigham Place will serve formerly

A couple of weeks ago, the Inquirer ran a story about the Columbia Avenue riot of 1964. Even fifty years later, the effects of this event can be felt on what is now called Cecil B. Moore Avenue, a once vibrant commercial corridor that never fully recovered. With a student

On 3rd Street in Northern Liberties, there's a ton of construction going on right now. So it may seem strange that we're profiling 613-25 N. 3rd St., a project that's not actually under construction yet. But hey, we've covered it before and we have current renderings. So here we go.Current

Last year, we wondered how new construction, ostensibly for student housing, would fit into the context of the Diamond Street Historic District near Temple. At the time, we didn't realize that there's a second historically protected section of Diamond Street in Strawberry Mansion. The West Diamond Street Townhouse Historic District

In the spring, we told you of plans for a sixteen-unit building on a vacant lot in Old City, north of the Ben Franklin Bridge. So when a reader checked in over the weekend, sharing news that a new hole had appeared on 2nd Street north of the bridge, we