After 15 years, the founders and producers of the Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival, Philly’s off-beat theatre and musical festival, will soon be moving to an interesting new home. It will mean the repurposing of a 100-plus-year old building along the waterfront.

“It will be a kind of central hub,” said

Since AVI numbers were released last week, we've speculated that assessors never actually visited any properties, and we lamented the fact that the OPA has severely undervalued land across the entire city. Today, we reflect on perhaps the most alarming aspect of AVI that we've discovered so far: after two

If you read this blog with any sort of regularity, you know that we cover tons of development on the northern end of the Point Breeze neighborhood. Despite the dozens of new homes that have been built in the area in recent years, there is still quite of a bit

A reader gave us the heads up recently about 440 Belgrade St., a new home that was recently constructed on a formerly vacant lot. We swung by the property recently, and we will admit it's like nothing we've ever seen.

The extra-wide three bedroom home also has two full and two

We were in the area the other day, and moseyed on down one of Northern Liberties' narrowest streets to check out some development on display. 1018 and 1020 N. Leithgow St. were previously vacant lots, but now they contain two rather tall framed out homes with garages.

1018-28 N Leithgow St.

As the months have gone by, we've been peeking in the windows every couple of weeks to check on the progress of the new Honey's Sit 'n Eat planned for the northwest corner of 21st & South. Today, we walked by the long-awaited commercial space, and were surprised to see

Point Breeze generally doesn't see many new businesses opening up. Remember, we were stoked when a dry cleaner (currently closed, reopening next month under new management) opened a year ago at 16th & Federal. So you can only imagine our surprise and excitement when we read Meal Ticket's report that

With the release of the 2014 assessed home values by the Office of Property Assessment, we now have an idea of what property taxes will look like next year across the city. And in many neighborhoods, it ain't pretty. You can check on your neighborhood, using the Axis Philly AVI

We are disappointed and bummed out.

Yesterday, the Office of Property Assessment released 2014 property assessments, with an eye toward the novel idea of taxing properties in this town based on what they're worth. We took a look at a random sampling of data from the new assessments, and we did discover improved fairness across the board.

Last May, we checked in on the old, gross warehouse at the corner of 12th & Latona, and were excited to discover that it had been demolished at last. At that time, the new mixed-use building across the street, built by the same developer, looked like it was nearing completion.