It may not be as exciting as the four-story mixed-use development currently being built a block away at 19th & Fairmount, but a six-unit residential project is set to go up in short order at the corner of 18th & Olive in Francisville. A couple of weeks ago, the ZBA

We were on our way to snap some photos of the new Penn Street section of the Delaware River Trail the other day, and as we headed east on Brown Street some new homes caught our eye. Circling back around, we realized that three separate projects we've previously told you about

If it isn't totally clear, we're pretty fond of this here town we call our home. Philadelphia pretty much has it all. History, arts, culture, great parks, a booming restaurant scene, some top notch universities, frustrating but lovable sports teams, and so much more. But that's not to say it's

If developers' vision comes to fruition, Queen Village will soon be home to a new upscale boutique hotel. Last summer, we wondered what was in store at the northwest corner of 5th & Bainbridge when we noticed the John C Paul and Sons paper company that operated out of a

Last August, we told you about some interesting construction activity on the 1300 block of S. Howard St., as a warehouse picked up an additional two stories and the warehouse next door got torn down. You can see, the change on the block has been fairly dramatic.

In the photo above,

Visit the Ralph Brooks Tot Lot at 20th & Tasker today and the first thing you notice is a chilling mural containing dozens of names of neighborhood victims of violence. It's perhaps appropriate that such a mural would exist next door to this twenty-five year old park, which was established

In 2011, the Philadelphia Housing Authority took the important, necessary, and long-overdue step of admitting that they were in way over their heads. No, we're not referring to their former Executive Director who just put his Naval Square home up for rent, we're talking about their auctioning off of hundreds

Last week, we told you about a couple of grants that recently came through for projects along the Delaware River. Today, we have news about the completion of the first quarter-mile of the Delaware River Trail, a path along the river that will ultimately extend over a five-mile stretch of

For the last few years, Arcadia Boutique has held down the retail space at 265 S. 20th St., right on the corner of 20th & Manning, right in the middle of one of our favorite commercial corridors in town. This store, along with their other location in Northern Liberties, offered

When we last checked in on the 800 block of Opal Street in January, two new homes separated by a garage had just been framed out. In case you've forgotten, these homes were designed by David Traub Architects and were inspired by the Schmidt’s carriage house a couple of blocks away on Cambridge