While a jazz club at 50th & Baltimore sounded like a good idea, to the developer planning to create the club it was more of a misunderstanding. According to a Cedar Park Neighbors (CPN) newsletter, developer Craig King has claimed the L&I inspector who issued the permits for a sit-down

About a month ago, we told you about 1010 and 1012 S. 20th St., two long-blighted properties owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Both properties had just been posted with notices from L&I suggesting insisting that PHA perform repairs on the buildings. Of particular concern was the corner property, which

Listed at 819 South St., the parcel on the north side of the constantly changing commercial thoroughfare is today a set of residential units.  But the lot’s history says that the location has seen plenty of change along with its contextualizing street.  Indeed, in an era when South Street was populated by

A couple of months ago, we made our way down 17th Street in Point Breeze, and told you about four projects in different stages of completion. Today, we have an update on one of those developments, and news about two more coming down the pike. Looking back to May, the

Speaking of steel rising from the ground, today we have a brief update on a new building going up at 19th & Arch. We last checked in here back in November, right before PMC Property Group broke ground on this project. Now, the first story is nearly framed out.

In case

Back in January, we told you that SouthStar Lofts, a large, new mixed-use development from Dranoff Properties, would soon be breaking ground on the northeast corner of Broad & South. Long home to a large but poorly located community garden, this corner will soon be home to eighty-five new rental

The Sparks Shot Tower on the 100 block of Carpenter Street is easily the most recognizable feature of the Queen Village skyline, rising up above all of the buildings in the neighborhood for over two-hundred years. About a century ago, the land surrounding the shot tower was converted into a

Several years ago, five luxury homes rose on the 100 block of Alter Street, part of an eight home development that was never finished and across the street from some foundations that have never been turned into buildings. The other day, a reader gave us the heads up that at

In Queen Village, current construction will transform the Nebinger School into a citywide model for stormwater management improvements at Philadelphia public schools.

“Nebinger is unique in that it's essentially a model,” said Tiffany Ledesma Groll of the Philadelphia Water Department.

Improvements to the school are planned to be completed by the start

A couple of months ago, we told you about two homes that would be rising at 2037-39 Blair St., behind a planned mixed-use building on Frankford Avenue. This block of Blair Street isn't the best in the neighborhood, with mostly two-story homes on one side of the street and vacant land