The building at 771 S. 2nd St. immediately strikes the passerby as distinct from its surroundings.  In a neighborhood of attached single-family residencies, this building is unattached and set back from the street in a gated and tree-filled yard.  According to Hexamer & Locher’s 1858 Philadelphia Atlas, the building in question was occupied by

In the spring, we burst everyone's bubble when we reported that a Wegman's seemed less than likely to appear in a planned commercial development on the northeast corner of Broad & Washington. In case you don't recall, this was Tower's proposed plan for the long-vacant, extremely depressing lot at the bottom

Remember yesterday, when we told you about plans for twenty new homes on Mascher Street in South Kensington? Today we have a much smaller project to share nearby, which is also replacing a long vacant lot. For quite some time, 176 Cecil B. Moore Ave. looked like this:In the pastThough

Last summer, we told you about a plan to completely renovate Ralph Brooks Park, located at 20th & Tasker. This park, which is currently is pretty rough shape, is most easily identified by the large mural listing names of people in the neighborhood who have been impacted by violence. It's an

South Kensington has no shortage of big vacant lots. Slowly, plans are emerging to transform those lots into buildings. Even more slowly, those plans are being realized. It was over a year ago that we first told you about Soko Lofts, a mixed-use project on 2nd Street with hundreds of

Fishtown, Fishtown ― there's a lot a building going down in this area. And while it's not all large-scale or multi-unit, like plans for Moyer Court or the IceHouse project, a string of one-off projects are peppering the plate of revitalization in the riverwards. Today, we look at a pair of

It seems we've been waiting for the redevelopment of the northwest corner of 17th & South forever. It was almost three years ago that we first broke the news that a four story mixed-use building would be replacing a vacant lot at this site. Then there was a whole lot

Heading across town over the weekend, we passed by the building that was previously home to Hawthorne's before a fire this past winter closed the business temporarily. When we last visited this site, we were concerned (with the obvious caveat that we're not engineers) that the building might not survive

For years, we've been talking about Washington Avenue West, hoping for better things than forklifts and building supply warehouses, and dreaming of a more accessible bridge between Graduate Hospital and Point Breeze. And there have certainly been some small improvements, like the opening of NextFab Studios, a crossfit gym, and

Perhaps you've noticed, North Broad Street has experienced tremendous improvement in the last decade or so. Several old buildings have been repurposed for residential uses closer to City Hall. Temple has grown by leaps and bounds, building new structures and renovating older ones. And now it seems like the Divine