And now, another exciting edition of ‘places where Philadelphians used to be buried.’  Next time you’re chugging along on the elliptical or rocking through your Zumba class at Philadelphia Sports Club on South 5th Street, try not to think about the countless excommunicated Quakers that were once buried there.  Just a few blocks

Last summer, when we last checked in on 2116 Chestnut Street, the new building had grown to about ten stories. Over the last year or so, the 34-story building that replaced the modernist Sidney Hillman Medical Center has grown to full size, with the building now fully enclosed by shiny glass.

Currently,

This week, we told you about the ribbon cutting at the first section of the Delaware River Trail, running from Spring Garden Street to the Sugarhouse parking lot. While we were there, we spotted some significant construction activity across the street.

Next door to the Penn Treaty Village Pennthouses, Core Realty

Anyone who lives near 20th & Kimball is surely not a fan of the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Very few expressed any sort of pleasure when PHA built an unattractive two-story building on the northeastern corner of this intersection a couple of years ago. But much more damning to PHA is

For over thirty years, the Artful Dodger made its home at the southwest corner of 2nd & Pine, until closing its doors last November. This space, located at the top of Headhouse Square, clearly has plenty of history, apparently serving as barracks for the Continental Marines way back when, according to

Just yesterday, as we finished our third post about Northern Liberties in four days, we speculated that development would start to spread from this neighborhood to the north and west in the years to come. Going unmentioned was that development has already spread like crazy from Northern Liberties in a

A couple of years ago, we reflected on the state of retail on South Street and lamented the numerous vacancies, pointing to the corner of 6th & South as a prime example of just how far South Street had fallen. On the 600 block, we counted several vacant storefronts, including

Several months ago, we featured the Samuel Machinery Company building at 135-37 N. 3rd St. as a 'Blight of the Week' property. And oh did it ever deserve the honor. See, it's one thing for a row home in a residential neighborhood to have boarded up windows or a failing

Yesterday, we passed along some new info about three projects under construction on the 800 block of Lawrence Street. And today, we have some updates about a couple of projects around the corner, right near a recently demolished warehouse at the corner of 5th & Poplar. As we told you

A few months ago, we told you about four foundations that had been poured on the 1300 block of Bainbridge St., which represented the first phase of twenty-two new homes replacing a big surface parking lot on this block. Sitting next to a gas station and in the shadow of