Over the last few years, forty-one homes have risen in the Point Breeze neighborhood thanks to funding from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), which was "established for the purpose of stabilizing communities that have suffered from foreclosures and abandonment." With financing administered by the Redevelopment Authority, these homes have been

A year and a half ago, we brought 740 S. 18th St. to your attention. A giant mixed-use property on a prominent Graduate Hospital corner, this building once contained a funeral home and also had a bike shop on the first floor within the last twenty years. But for the

Tucked into a quiet pocket of Queen Village, a little jewel of a park pays tribute to Philadelphia’s most famous tenor.  Mario Lanza Park, named to honor the star of stage and film, occupies a lot between Catherine and Queen, just west of 2nd Street. Given that Lanza was born in 1921,

While developers can easily include sustainable elements in new projects, there exist various opportunities around Philadelphia for environmentally friendly retrofits. But what's the best way to alter old sites with new sustainable fabrications?

The Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up! design challenge was a call for innovation. As we told you previously, it was created

A vacant corner at 43rd & Sansom in Spruce Hill will soon be transformed when a four-story 32-unit mixed-use project will be constructed. Work may begin as early as this spring, with the ZBA having approved the project in last month. “It’s a very dark corner in Spruce Hill,” said

About a month ago, roughly 1,300 GlaxoSmithKline workers vacated the building at 16th & Vine that was specifically built for their company fourteen years ago. With their move to a new (and really nice) facility at The Navy Yard, they left behind 225K sqft of office space on the edge of

One of yesterday's posts, however, wasn't a gag.

But which one?

In checking out two South Kensington sites last week, we stumbled onto 1300 N. Orianna St., a new construction single-family home. You may recall, last week we told you about plans for three-hundred-plus units at 2nd & Thompson, as well as the possibility of five new homes at the corner

That budget problems pimple Philadelphia like a teenager is well documented. Such woes are forcing the closure of 23 schools. City Council budget hearings draw hundreds of protesters. The AVI system is contested (and appropriately so). But all that aside, the Mayor’s Office of Grants is an example of one effort to fill Philadelphia’s cash shortfall.

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If you're not a pro-wrestling fan or don't live nearby, you've probably never heard of the Asylum Arena at the corner of Swanson & Ritner in South Philly. Located pretty much under I95 and directly to the south of a former Forman Mills location, this old warehouse blends in with