After many years at 23rd & Fairmount, a neighborhood grocer is out and Italian is in. A new proposal for a BYOB Italian restaurant at the site of the former Garden Fresh which closed last fall, points to the changing tide in Fairmount, where it's continuing to get more expensive

Last November, we told you about two homes under construction on the 2700 block of Cambridge Street. We visited the block again last week, and saw that there's been some good progress on these homes, which are replacing a vacant lot and a blighted building.Two new homesThe developers working on

Back in 2011, plans emerged for the Franklin Institute to expand for the first time in decades. The most interesting part of the museum's expansion is a kinetic "Shimmer Wall," created by artist Ned Kahn. We passed by yesterday, and shot the video. We recommend visiting to museum and the

On West Girard in Brewerytown, it seems retail is doing well, or at least retailers want to stick around because they believe in the neighborhood.Consider Rybrew, the cafe and bottle shop that opened at 2816 W. Girard Ave. last summer. Or Teaful Bliss, which recently moved from 11th & Spring

After grabbing a delicious sandwich at Breezy's Cafe yesterday, we were heading back into town when we noticed a new and growing hole in the ground at the northeast corner of 20th & Ellsworth. The combination of three vacant lots has held back this corner for quite some time, and

The last few years have been rough ones for the Philadelphia School District, with budget shortfalls, layoffs, and school closings. One would think that the District would be aggressively working to sell shuttered schools in an effort to fill some of the gap in their budget, but that process to

Earlier this week, we told you about a new Francisville foundation, just a few doors north of the intersection of 16th & Poplar. Like those in the quadplexes next door, the apartments in the duplex that will soon rise there will be condoed out. Just a block to the south

We first visited 1538 Green St. in June of 2012 when it was still a surface parking lot. We came back to it as digging began for a new foundation. Last fall, a large new home was well underway, but still under construction. Today, the nearly 8,200 sqft home is just

We got an email the other day from a reader with news about a new project in the works for the 1300 block of Buttonwood Street. A couple months ago, we updated you on two projects on the 1200 block of Buttonwood Street and a couple years back we wondered whether

In the summer of 2012, we wondered about the large vacant lot on the southeast corner of 13th & South. We lamented that this prominent lot was sitting vacant, especially in light of the construction of Southstar Lofts a block away. At the time, we explained that the 20,000 sqft lot