For the next few months, one of the El's train cars will double as a moving neuron.Student art wrapped around a train has transformed it into a moving mural as part of a Mural Arts program to showcase students’ work. Students worked with artist Ben Volta on the We Are All

It was two and a half years ago that we first brought 1244 Ridge Ave. to your attention, which was when we first learned of plans to bring this long-blighted building back from the dead. The building has sat on the triangular patch of land formed by the intersection of 13th

A local business owner plans to combine two vacant lots at 534-36 E. Cabot St. that he acquired in the spring of 2008 for $95K into one and construct a single-family home designed by Jenkintown-based Lance R. Kraemer Associates. The drive to combine the lots likely came from the fact

Over the summer, we learned about plans to completely renovate a gross old garage at 1128 S. 13th St., just south of Washington Avenue. Having lived in the area several years ago, we regularly found ourselves looking about this building, wondering if it would be fixed up at some point.

In Kensington, we’re curious to see whether plans for two large projects, Soko Lofts and Liberty Square, will spur further development along wide-open American Street, which is lined with vacant lots and former industrial sites potentially primed for new construction or repurposing.For example, there’s a vacant lot that’s basically a

A couple months back, we passed along news that Breezy's Cafe would be changing locations after spending under a year at a less-than-ideal location at 20th & Reed. After Thanksgiving, this little neighborhood spot closed their doors and began working in earnest at 1200 Point Breeze Ave., formerly home to

We've gone on the record multiple times in the last couple of years, lamenting Philadelphia's lack of movie theaters. That people who live in Rittenhouse have to travel fifteen blocks to see a first-run movie is still incomprehensible to us, and if the folks fighting the iPic plan for the

Two newlyweds are poised to bring another dose of improvement to the East Girard Ave. business corridor with Stock, a Vietnamese pho restaurant they plan to open in January at 308 E. Girard Ave., the site of a former ice cream shop.Tyler Akin, a sous chef at Zahav, and Nicole Reigle,

Traveling the other day on Carpenter Street, we spotted two interesting development-related items to bring to your attention. One is a little unfortunate in nature, the other constitutes pretty good news. First, the unfortunate item:On the northwest corner of 24th & Carpenter, a new addition recently appeared. We have no

Along Passyunk Avenue, just south of the cherished Italian Market, a strip that holds its place in Philadelphia history, there are no buildings listed on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places. The folks in the Passyunk Square Civic Association are looking to change that.Currently, the group is organizing a sort