About ten months ago, two zoning notices appeared at 1237-39 N 31st St., announcing plans for two single family homes. These homes were to be built by Steph-Sin Development, the folks that constructed the home immediately next door last year.

Over the past ten months, much has happened in this area. Notably, a

Today, we have a couple of non-updates on projects we've been eyeing at the intersection of 6th & Lombard. Looking at the southeast corner, we see some improvements over, say, a year ago.

As you can see, the property one off the corner has been demolished and rebuilt, which we last

The Loonstyn family is on a development tear. Loonstyn Properties and MJL Properties, both owned by members of the Loonstyn family, have embarked on projects large and small in the last few years in the Francisville, Fairmount, and Spring Garden neighborhoods. Recently, Loonstyn Properties acquired two historic Victorian homes in

We were in the area the other day, and spotted three fenced-in lots on the 3000 block of West Girard, just around the corner from the still-newish Bottom Dollar market. Doing a little bit of research, we discovered that all of the properties are being developed by ML Builders LLC.

Philadelphia used to be a home to a thriving industrial economy. Many factories that once buzzed with the work of daily life in Kensington, Old City, or the loft district are now apartments, transformed by developers with an eye toward the city's history.

A building that has yet to be transformed

Over a year ago, we first told you about plans for the renovation of 1107 S. 6th St., a double-wide husk of a building that sat directly to the south of a recently built dentist's office and in between two large Asian shopping centers. Plans at the time were for

Last summer, we told you about efforts to rehab 1600 Frankford Ave., a building with some interesting architectural details that we hoped would be preserved. We happened upon the building yesterday in the rain, and while it appears that the owners were able to preserve some aspects of the building,

As we often do, we were perusing the ZBA calendar the other day and noticed that owners of 1204 S. 12th St. were hoping to construct six new single-family homes with carports and a shared driveway. It was only when we swung by this address that it occurred to us

In Northern Liberties, a new project is slated for a prime location once a few last details are tweaked. Members of the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association (NLNA) zoning committee recently approved plans for five single-family homes at the northwest corner of 3rd & Brown, across the street from the well established North 3rd. We recommend

As any Temple student or regular reader of this site is well aware, there's been a tremendous amount of new development in the area surrounding Temple in the last several years. So when we spotted a ZBA notice for a new development at 1901 N. 19th St., we figured it