Most Francisville residents are familiar with the Bell Telephone Company Exchange building at 17th & Poplar. The tall, skinny building stands in complete contrast to just about everything that surrounds it, and doesn't really have a good analog around town that immediately comes to mind. For decades, the building sat

A couple of years ago, Baring Street existed unaware to our development consciousness. Now the 4000 block of Baring St. in West Powelton is a block in the midst of a complete transformation. Can we say it’s like a redevelopment butterfly, emerging from its cocoon?

In the last eighteen months, we’ve written about

Back in August, we first told you about a plan for twenty-two new homes on 5th Street in Northern Liberties. We were in the area the other day, and can tell you that there has been quite a bit of progress on this project, with many of the homes already

There's a certain charm in being afforded the opportunity of walking a block or two to the local coffee shop for your morning coffee, bagel, or tasty pastry. In our urban environment, cafes represent a detached sphere. They remain the same and are moved neither by the rites of spring

It's true that Frankford Avenue has come a very long way in the last few years, with new construction, renovation, and new businesses opening all the time. There are, however, still a number of vacant lots remaining on Frankford in Fishtown, with some of those lots being massive in size.

Along North Broad Street, things are looking better than they have in decades, and more changes are coming. There’s construction near Temple, numerous condo and apartment conversions, and the award-winning Osteria. It’s as if Broad Street blight, once as rampant as morning traffic, has become a Broad Street boom.

The west side of the 800

If you've spent a summer in Philadelphia, it's likely you've ended up at Penn's Landing at some point, perhaps perusing a flea market, catching a concert, or simply visiting with the purpose of lamenting its inaccessibility, its unfortunate design, and its spectacularly wasted potential. Yes, Penn's Landing coulda been something special,

It's sat vacant for two decades and though Brandywine Realty Trust purchased 1919 Market St. for $9.3M early in 2011, two years later its vision and any action pertaining to active development of the lot have apparently stalled.

The site has been featured in various plans since it was first razed to make room for a

In recent years, the number of local coffee roasteries in Philadelphia has exploded. Chestnut Hill, One Village, Green Street, and L'Aube are just a few of the local roasters that have contributed to the evolving coffee scene in our fine town. Another local roaster, ReAnimator Coffee, recently moved to a new

Last March, we told you about two homes replacing two vacant lots at 949-51 N. Lawrence St., in Northern Liberties. Typically, when we share info about projects like this, we expect them to be in the ground a couple of months later, with framing after that, and the homes going