As Drexel University and the Penn continue to expand, as well as USciences and the University City Science Center, the neighborhood housing equation continues to change. We've covered numerous examples in the past of new construction and renovation pushing northward, into West Powelton and Mantua, with some blocks gaining tons of new

Last fall, we brought you to little Capitol Street to check out a new residential project. Located just west of 20th St. and accessible from Fairmount Ave., Capitol disappears after two blocks, apparently never to return (though we confess we stopped looking at Chelten Ave.). Today, we return to this

All winter, we had been wondering what the deal was with a ground-floor retail space at 4100 Chester Ave. in a building that houses a few tenants, including The May School at the University of the Sciences. From what we understand, the space has been vacant for nearly a decade. This

In between the still new 33-unit mixed-use project on the 1500 block of Fairmount Ave., and another 15-unit mixed-use project on the 1900 block, a local longtime business owner has sold 1710-16 Fairmount Ave., an art deco building that's seen better days.

According to the Spring Garden Civic Association's website, the owner

Over a year ago, we first told you about the possible rehab of the former REACH baseball factory at the intersection of Tulip & Palmer in Fishtown. And after last week, it seems more likely than ever that this currently blighted building will soon house people instead of baseballs.  The project

Almost two years ago, we first told you about plans to convert a surface parking lot near the Italian Market into sixty-four units of affordable housing for seniors. A year later, we followed up on this site on the 900 block of Ellsworth St., noting that the developers had broken

Last month, we gave you the heads up that demolition was underway at the former Patriot Parking garage in Logan Square. This has been in the works for a couple of years at 206-12 N. 22nd St., but the project has changed slightly from its original incarnation with the entry of

A couple of months ago, we were telling you about a new construction home on the corner of Thompson & Orianna, and mentioned a couple of blighted properties on Thompson's 300 block. Around the same time, we first brought you news about Soko Lofts, a giant mixed-use development coming to

1016 South St. stands directly next to Philadelphia mosaic artist Isaiah Zager’s greatest masterpiece, the walk-through debris sculpture aptly called the Magic Garden.  While the eyes of most viewers will understandably be drawn to this highly unusual sight, right next to it stands a building with a fair degree of its own

Now that 19th Street has seen recent improvements in separate projects near Poplar and Ginnodo Streets, and along the 1900 block of Brown Street where two single family homes are being constructed on opposite sides of the block, as well as a four home project planned for 19th & Brown,