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

About a month ago, we first shared the news that Dranoff Properties has its sights set on a new development at the corner of Broad & Spruce. Today, we attended the official announcement event for this project, which has been dubbed SLS International Hotel & Residences. The name pays tribute to

About two blocks north of Girard, the ongoing construction of three single-family homes at 4th & Harlan is one more project in the burgeoning South Kensington neighborhood, which is about to be slammed with two huge projects that could bring more than 500 new units to the area.As we told

In July, we first told you about a proposal for 23rd & Christian which would see the demolition of the unattractive building currently on the site and its replacement with a new five-story, mixed-use building. When neighbors expressed concerns about the plan, the developers made some changes. The second version

On a little street in Fishtown, two new homes at 2303-05 Collins St. are being constructed as part of yet another one-off development. The two homes had been framed out when we passed by a couple of weeks ago. Previously, the lots where these homes are rising contained a swimming

A couple of years ago, plans emerged for the I. Brewster & Company Gallery to move from an extremely unimpressive building at the corner of 22nd & Market to a new space at 21st & Race in the former home of the Please Touch Museum. In the time that passed