Along with Frankford Avenue, East Girard is slowly redefining Fishtown as a go-to locale for eats. In the past few years, numerous restaurants have opened on East Girard, and the aptly named Girard, a BYO French brasserie, will be the next one to get in on the fun. Before they've even

For years, the northwest corner of 24th & Manning has been a curiously vacant lot a block away from an entrance to the Schuylkill River Trail, and sitting in the shadows of former warehouses that have been converted into apartment buildings. But yesterday, a reader tipped us off that construction

In East Kensington these days, it seems like Coral Street is the new Amber Street. Last week, we told you about seven 12-wide homes coming to the 2200 block, to be built by two different developers. Then we caught you up on two more homes under construction where E. Huntingdon

A couple of years ago, when we told you about plans for a new construction home at 1418 Pemberton St., we highlighted the stalled construction next door. Plenty of time has passed, the aforementioned planned home has been built and sold (for $840K!), and there has thankfully been some progress

Two years ago, we came upon an ivy-covered warehouse on the 3100 block of Hamilton Street with a Cease and Desist notice on its door. Workers were apparently removing underground tanks without the proper permits, which led to the ceasing and desisting and such. Eventually though, the violations were cleared

In the spring of 2012, we first told you about plans from D3 Developers (a company that somehow doesn't employ anyone who was in any of the Mighty Ducks movies) to convert the former dye works at 100 W. Oxford St. into a mixed-use development called Oxford Mills. Back then,

The 1300 block of S. Chadwick Street in Point Breeze is in the middle of a transformation. Until the beginning of this year, this block featured a shocking number of vacant lots. Notably, its eastern side had a collection of lots with a combined length of over half a football

Somehow, we haven't provided any updates on CHOP's Schuylkill Avenue project since April, after they first presented at Civic Design Review. To quickly bring you up to speed, CHOP came to a second CDR meeting with some changes to the project, then they presented to the ZBA and got approval

The folks at the University City District have set a fine example on how to take a small project and make it grow. From The Porch at 30th Street Station, which started with a single grant and now has programming all summer, to the new Tree Seats they're poised to

About a month ago, we brought the historic building at 230 N. 13th St. to your attention, noting that it was available for sale. We shared some of its history, as NFL Films used the building as its inaugural offices, and Big Brothers Big Sisters was headquartered here for decades until a recent move to Texas.