A year and a half ago, we brought you the news that the lease would soon expire for the Dollar General at 23rd & South. Yet with 2012 having come and gone, and over half of 2013 now expired, the store persists, as it has for many years. So... what

We were in the area the other day and noticed that two new foundations have appeared on the northwest corner of 20th & Wharton. You may recall (though we forgot), we wrote about this project about a year ago, after the developer presented to the community.

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In case you don't recall,

Bartram's Mile is a plan to connect neighborhoods in SouthWest Philly to the Schuylkill River waterfront and amp up the area's green amenities via a riverfront trail and new green space. The residents in the area have long been disconnected from the water due to industrial sites and generally unkempt

A reader checked in the other day, wondering about 1009 S. 7th St., a building that lost its facade awhile ago, and is still waiting for it to be replaced. Looking at Google Maps from 2011, you can see the bricks were still there...

But as the photos below reveal, the

Months ago, Naked Philly favorite Feder's Fresh closed its doors, depriving residents of Spring Garden, Fairmount, and Francisville of a convenient place to procure fresh and inexpensive produce. Fortunately, the neighborhood still had Garden Fresh Produce and Deli, located at 23rd & Fairmount, to fill those needs. But it seems

In recent years, Susquehanna Avenue has experienced development on both sides of Front Street. In East Kensington, numerous projects have risen, including several homes with creative design elements. In the other direction, the Norris Square Civic Association has actively developed quite a bit of affordable housing. Right in the middle of

It's no secret that Philadelphia has a considerable amount of vacant land. If you read this blog with any regularity, then you're surely noticed that hardly a day goes by that we don't mention a vacant lot in some rapidly developing neighborhood that's being replaced by a new building. The

A reader was surprised the other day when they spotted a mural on a newish house on the northeast corner of Smedley & Fitzwater. Murals, from what we understand, are a complex undertaking that typically takes considerable planning and a decent amount of time to complete. That's to say that

Over in Fishtown, there are dozens of isolated properties that look like they could use some love. Some of them are vacant. Some are occupied. On Susquehanna, just below Girard at the corner of Harper Street, a block from I-95 and a few more blocks from the waterfront, a duplex