For those who don't have information on obscure Pennsylvania laws at their fingertips, Act 135 allows a court-appointed conservator to bring a blighted property into code compliance, or alternatively facilitate its redevelopment. This statute has caused some controversy over the years for all the obvious reasons. But at the same

Owners of former industrial sites in Manayunk building residential mixed-use projects was a story we covered frequently in 2024, and from the looks of it that trend will continue in the new year. At the very least, things are continuing to progress at 4045 Main St. since our visit last

The Eagles won a playoff game yesterday (Go Birds!) and quite unexpectedly, the local basketball team was perhaps a bigger story. Since the summer of 2022, we've been writing about 76 Place, the proposed new Sixers arena at 10th & Market. The project went through a few different iterations, required

There's been a fair amount of development along the Germantown Avenue corridor in South Kensington over the last few years, and the trend doesn't seem to be abating. Assuming that the latest Gretz Brewery redevelopment project proceeds, the action will continue ramping up. With the ZBA signing off on the

A few months back, we wrote about a pair of apartment buildings proposed for a vacant lot across the street from Frankford Hospital, and acknowledged that it would probably be a while before we saw much more development in this neighborhood, so far up the MFL line. But a four

We're always happy to see affordable senior housing projects in the development pipeline, but a proposal to adaptively re-use a historic school building in Strawberry Mansion feels like a double win.Completed in 1901 at 2601 N 28th St., the Rudolph Walton elementary school served the local community until being shut

If you're anything like us, you took a bunch of walks around town over the holidays. Getting more steps in is always one of our New Year's resolutions, so we took the opportunity to stroll around Fishtown last week, right before the calendar flipped. One building we noticed on said

People living in Northwest Philadelphia probably think of Cresheim Creek as the wooded waterway serving as a border between the verdant neighborhoods of Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill. Today the area around the creek is a bucolic green space, with a walking trail that leads to the Wissahickon. A century

New year, new you, amirite? Or if you're Philadelphia, maybe it's new year, pretty much the same you, but hopefully we'll do a little better this year. That doesn't look so good on a bumper sticker, alas.Now that we're two days into 2025, it's a great time to reflect on

Did you have more multi-family housing in one of Philadelphia's most charming neighborhoods on your wish list this year? We sure did. And that's why we were so happy to see a positive update a few days ago on a long delayed redevelopment of a former gas station in the