Two recent separate grants provided by the Community Design Collaborative (CDC) will mean plans for improvements along the 4th Street Commercial Corridor in Queen Village where a fire in late April ravaged a Fabric Row store, damaged others and claimed a fire captain’s life.

The Friends of Bainbridge Green (FOBG) received a $25K in kind

Today, the Charter High School For Architecture and Design (CHAD) stands at 105 S. 7th St., bound by Sansom, Chestnut, 6th and 7th Streets.  It would seem a fitting place to learn about architecture and design given the long architectural biography of the location.  Indeed, according to Philadelphia Dance History Journal, this was the site of Philadelphia’s very

In Francisville, development around 19th & Poplar over the past couple of years has had a transformative effect on the surrounding neighborhood. To name just a couple, projects like a ten-home development on Ginnodo Street and a 35-unit development that replaced several vacant structures have helped contribute toward making this area into an up

In our last post, we told you about four homes filling in a vacant wooded lot in Fairmount, and wondered how a lot could sit vacant for so many years in such an established neighborhood. As it's strange to see vacant lots in Fairmount, it's also unexpected to see vacant

A long wooded vacant and somewhat dismal corner in Fairmount is now all but transformed. When we passed by 23rd & Brandywine last week, the four homes we wrote about earlier this winter were close to being completed. Some final brick or stucco work along Brandywine Street appeared to be the last thing needed in order

Perhaps last weekend you enjoyed a day of music at the Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier. Tonight, you may enjoy the stylings of the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And maybe you're like us and still listen to Phrenology once every couple of weeks. No matter,

It's always interesting (for us at least) to look at the agendas for the ZBA- this task often points us in the direction of development we'd otherwise never have known about. Take, for example, two projects we learned about over the weekend, within a block of each other, in the

Philadelphia’s Rail Park is an effort by three dedicated Philadelphians to transform an unused rail line into a grand pubic space that connects Fairmount Park to the cultural spine of Philadelphia along the Parkway down to City Hall. The space begins at the far end of Pennsylvania Avenue near 28th

When we last checked in on the northeast corner of 19th & Fairmount, we noted that Noam Chomsky looked concerned as he prepared to be covered by a new building. At that time, developers had just broken ground at this site, where they would soon be constructing a building with

The Ben Franklin Parkway is home to an award winning art collection at the new Barnes Foundation, and as of May 22nd it's also home to a joyland for skateboarders at the $4.5M Franklin Paine’s Park. This park, in the shadow of the Art Museum, is set just above the banks