Perhaps it was inevitable. What comes up must come down. Peaks are followed by valleys. Bears follow bulls. For the past couple of years, it's been only good news for South Street West as new businesses have filled vacant spaces and new buildings have gone up on vacant lots. And

Cecil B. Moore Avenue near Temple has seen a tremendous uptick in development in recent years. Student housing has exploded on this street, with new apartment buildings replacing vacant land, collapsed churches, and shuttered schools. With much of this new development residential in nature, it might surprise you to know

Envision the Philadelphia's eastern edge bordered by a natural boundary of parks and green spaces, wetlands and piers, trails and marinas, and you can begin to understand the overarching principles of the Plan for the Central Delaware to create a 30-acre green space along the Delaware waterfront.

To add to the

Head up the 2000 block of E. Arizona St., and you'll find a couple of homes, some converted warehouses, some vacant land, and what look like shuttered garages. But soon enough, those garages, which currently look awful, will disappear into the ether. In their place will rise four new homes.

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For anyone who's lived nearby for the last few years, 925 S 23rd St. has been an unfortunate eyesore. Surely, the neighbors were cheered when the vacant property received a Doors and Windows citation back in March, though they've surely noticed that nothing has changed at the site in the

Now that all of University City's biggest institutions, including Drexel, the Science Center, and Penn are building new towers, pockets in nearby neighborhoods where development has been quiet for years are now seeing improvement, like rapid development near 40th & Baring (though if you look at the architecture over there, improvement

Less than nine months ago, we brought you the news that Philly Cupcake had opened their doors on the southeast corner of 20th & South. At that time, we guessed that they would do a pretty good business in this space, with South Street foot traffic along with people walking up

A little less than two weeks ago, the ZBA granted a variance that will pave the way for twelve new homes to rise on the 1300 block of Chadwick Street. We first told you about this project, which has gone through several iterations after no less than seven community meetings

In March of 2012, we told you about plans for five new homes next to Palmer Park, on a triangular piece of land bordered by Memphis, Orange, and Earl Streets. Back then, a one-story triangular warehouse stood on this site, but that building is now history.

While the triangular building above

Near Temple University, two blocks of Master Street depict the place where blight meets redevelopment. The 1700 block is home to a huge tract of vacant land, several other one-off lots, and a few blighted buildings. Just a block farther west, the 1800 block has five duplexes under construction, a project