For some design professionals, the Soak It Up! challenge provided the opportunity to flirt with ideas they've perhaps talked about but not yet had the chance to implement.

We’ve covered the challenge, created by the Community Design Collaborative and the Philadelphia Water Department, since it was first announced last year. The winners were announced in early March. Part of

A year ago, we told you about plans to build a duplex on the vacant corner of 18th & Reed. At the time, we noted that most development going on in the area was taking place north of Wharton Street, but speculated that this could be a sign that more

A thread popped up on Philadelphia Speaks the other day, sharing the news that Murray's Steaks and Other Fine Foods, located at 26th & Girard, had closed its doors. Based on the commentary from several posters who seem to live in the neighborhood, Murray's wasn't exactly serving up particularly high quality

A couple of months ago, we told you about The Cliff Townhomes, a seventeen home development at Leverington & Silverwood on the Manayunk-Roxborough border. In one of the photos of that project, you may have noticed additional homes being framed just down the street. And some info about those homes is what

It was almost two years ago that we first told you about plans to rehab 2101 Christian St., a blah building in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood.

At that time, we believed that a sandwich shop would be coming to a little commercial space on the corner, adding to the commercial mix

Over a year ago, we first told you about plans from Tower Investments to build as many as seventy new homes on a block bordered by Master St. to the north, Thompson St. to the south, Howard St. to the east, and Mascher St. to the west. For months and

Last fall, we told you about plans to replace the play areas at Seger Park at 10th & Lombard. At that time, the playground equipment had been torn out and the playground looked a little barren.

Well, the construction in the park finished up back in January, and the kiddies have

Another piece of Philadelphia history seems as though it will soon be demolished. A 25-story mixed-use high rise featuring apartments, retail and office space is planned for 38th & Chestnut next to the Philadelphia Episcopal Church in University City. Last summer, the Historical Commission granted the Church permission to demolish two historic brownstones located

Planners, architects, and neighbors these days seem more and more sensitive when it comes to the scale of a block. We've attended countless neighborhood zoning meetings where developers have sought a few feet of extra height than is permitted by right, and neighbors stand in opposition as a result. While

Perhaps there is something new and invigorating in the air down along New Market Street in Northern Liberties. No. It isn’t exhaust from I-95. Well it is, but that is not what we mean. We mean rather the string of projects that have recently been presented to the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) along this short strip