Over a year ago, we brought 2835-37 W. Girard Ave. to your attention. Formerly a pizza place, a fire took place here several years ago, leaving the building in its currently blighted state. Recently, the owner has cleaned up the facade some, taking our advice by adding something that resembles

A couple of months ago, we told you that eleven town homes would soon be rising on the southeast corner of 2nd & Wharton, site of a warehouse fire back in December. According to several reports, this warehouse had been the site of several unlicensed activities, including an auto repair

In West Philadelphia, as the Baltimore Avenue commercial corridor has strengthened, it has continued to crawl west block by block. The relocation of the Mariposa Coop to 48th & Baltimore in the spring of 2011 marks one of the more prominent landmarks in the corridor's westward crawl from Clark Park

Baby step by baby step, the West Girard Avenue corridor is seeing improvements. In the last couple of years, the opening of a new Bottom Dollar at 31st Street probably represented the biggest addition, but there are plenty of other residential and commercial developments that have cropped up, with several

We've been surprised that an empty lot has sat at the northeast corner of 5th & Catharine for as long as it has. It's been vacant for as long as we can remember, aside from a few statues installed on the lot. But that will soon change as the Queen

At 5th & Thompson, a block north of Girard, we present to you what one might call a four-star corner.

At the southeast corner of this intersection is a huge vacant lot, across the street from the wonderful and charming Taco Riendo. The lot is actually six separate parcels, all owned

Right around Christmas time, we first told you about plans for ten new homes scattered over four blocks of Cambridge Street on the Fairmount/Brewerytown border. This project was to involve a partnership between developers MMPartners and Fairmount CDC purchasing blighted PHA properties, and redeveloping them into nine market-rate homes and one home to be sold

Out in Cedar Park, on the 5000 block of Baltimore Ave., plans for new businesses keep coming, adding to an already diverse neighborhood neighborhood that in recent months has seen new businesses open and old ones burn, literally.

Sometime early next year, Babylon Bistro should open at 5021-23 Baltimore Ave., properties we wrote about

Last week, at two different RCO meetings, developers presented plans for two new homes on the 2000 block of Titan Street in Point Breeze. 2002 and 2004 Titan St. have been vacant lots for decades, but that situation should be changing very soon. At the South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. meeting last

Last week, the City announced that beginning on July 17th, Eakins Oval in front of the Art Museum steps will be playing host to an inviting park and exciting project.

From the Parks and Recreation's announcement on their website, "eight acres of public space at the base of the Benjamin Franklin