A couple of weeks ago, an official groundbreaking took place at Ridge & Fairthorne for a new senior housing development from Interact. Currently a vacant lot and previously a car dealership, this lot could have been home to a fast food place or a bank, but the community apparently preferred

Right around the corner from where 191 units are being proposed for a huge vacant lot at Germantown and Thompson, at 221 W. Girard Ave., a three-story building is being renovated. When finished, it will include some new bay windows and a little retail space on the first floor.

According to

Sure, it seems like every week we have reports on some new project in Point Breeze. But be that as it may, there's still a tremendous supply of vacant land in the neighborhood over which the inexorable tide of development will surely flow in the years to come. Take the

Over the summer, several new developments took place on Lancaster Avenue and more improvements are planned.

At at 3835 Hamilton St., twelve new apartments have replaced an ugly warehouse. University Reality bought the building in August 2012 for $300K and now the end results of that investment are on show. When we

A couple of weeks ago, we broke the news that nine new townhomes would soon be coming to 2100 block of Walnut Street. While those homes are being built, a new retail amenity should be arriving across the street. Total Serenity Day Spa has moved out of their space at 2108

Some time ago, we told you about a partially constructed building at 2030-32 E Dauphin St. that was going up for sheriff's sale. We explained that the ten-unit building with parking could be yours, provided you could come up with like half a million bucks and a few hundred thou more to

Frankford Avenue in Fishtown has been filling in with so many new businesses over the past few years, and even more so in the past six months, that soon it might look like the South Street West.

Today, we share with you news about the space now being built out, according

Back in January 2012, the ZBA approved Renewbold, a bold sixteen-unit development planned for the corner of 16th & Moore. Located at the former site of the Drexel School, this project comes from LPMG, the folks behind the SPTR and American Sardine Bar. Postgreen has done the design work, and Hybrid Construction is building it.

A reader shot us an email recently, wondering what's up with 6056 Ridge Ave., the former Roxborough-Manayunk Bank building. Over the last couple of months, developers have torn the facade off of the building as it undergoes a massive renovation.

The property was built in 1956, according to the Preservation Alliance,

The Tale of Titan Park sounds like the name of a J.R.R. Tolkien short story. But what we are talking about is instead how a pocket park in Pennsport has gone from being nearly sold to a private developer by the Redevelopment Authority, around this time last year to being awarded