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

An old warehouse at 5th & Poplar has been razed to make way for twenty-one new homes in Northern Liberties. Developers pursued a somewhat lengthy process with the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) before the group agreed to support the project this spring. The fact that demolition has now taken place gives

A reader shot us an email the other day, wondering what's going on at 1218 N 30th St., a corner property which recently had its facade removed. Because it's what we do, we made our way to Brewerytown over the weekend to check it out.

As you can see from the

Back in March, we wondered what the renovation of the former check cashing place at 22nd & Saint Albans would ultimately look like when complete. At the time, we worried that the rear and third-floor addition would receive some sort of sheathing that would clash with the original brick which

Last fall, we told you about plans for a new bar/restaurant to come to 1318 Chestnut St., former home of Mitchell and Ness. Well, it's been a couple of months now since Brü opened their doors in this space, but we confess we don't find ourselves in this neighborhood very often

Tendrilescence is the name of an early artistic lighting concept for the still-being-planned Spring Garden Connector. That and additional plans for streetscape improvements under the I-95 Spring Garden Street overpass were presented at a public meeting hosted by Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) on May 29th.

Like the Columbia Avenue Connector we told

Before the calendar turned to 2012, we first brought you news of Fitz4, an architecturally creative four-home project planned for some long-vacant lots on the corner of Chadwick & Fitzwater. Developed by Metro Impact, this development was to be the cherry on the frappe for a block that has experienced