Potentially Endangered Properties of Today: The Roundhouse
25 January, 2013 | No Comments | Chinatown
The Drunk Tank. If you’ve ever consumed what others may consider to be too much alcohol and gotten mixed up one way or another with the police, you might have ended up there. In Philly, it’s known as The Roundhouse, located at 700 Race St.
This year, the building is listed on
Read MoreRybread Opening Second Location on Girard in Brewerytown
25 January, 2013 | No Comments | Brewerytown
We've had reason to find ourselves on Fairmount Avenue a lot in recent months, and at some point we discovered the wonderful Rybread. We've tried several of their sandwich offerings, and we can honestly say that the only problem we can identify with the place is that there aren't nearly
Read MoreSpruce Hill Bird Sanctuary is Something Else
25 January, 2013 | No Comments |
Birds. They might be our link to the dinosaurs. That aside, something of an unexpected sanctuary for the winged creatures was created in the past two years in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. It’s located behind an almost hidden path. We visited and worried that we were walking into
Read MoreAre Privately Owned Security Cameras A Better Way to Keep the City Safer?
24 January, 2013 | No Comments |
A tragic murder has been on the minds of Philadelphians since Monday, as we've tried to come to grips with how someone could commit such a heinous act and worried that a lunatic could still be at large. Today, according to Philly.com, an exterminator from Levittown has been taken into
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Over a year ago, we could swear that we attended a Francisville community meeting where a project was presented for the vacant southwest corner of 15th & Ogden. If that did, in fact, occur, then it seems that plans have changed for this spot, as a reader just tipped us
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Right around Thanksgiving, we told you about a presentation for 33 residential units at the YWCA building at 1607 Catharine St., and the unfavorable response from the near neighbors. Last week, developers returned to SOSNA and made a modified presentation, which received nearly unanimous support from the community and the
Read MoreProminent Corner Property on Point Breeze Avenue Getting Fixed Up
24 January, 2013 | No Comments | Point Breeze
A reader gave us the heads up that 1308-10 Point Breeze Ave. is currently under construction. This structure, while blighted, is located at a prominent intersection on Point Breeze Avenue and has a remarkably intact cornice for a property that's missing most of its windows. Most recently, the building was home
Read MoreAVI Conversations Ramping Up Again
23 January, 2013 | No Comments |
Last summer, the City of Philadelphia dodged a bullet when the Mayor Nutter's aggressive effort to pass AVI was rebuffed by City Council. But this fortunate turn of events did not solve the problem, it simply kicked the can down the road to 2014. And with news that next year's
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In the summer of 2011, a highly anticipated new Superfresh opened on the second floor of a large new building at the corner of 2nd & Girard. Just north of the Piazza, this new structure was not only supposed to give Northern Liberties its much-needed new supermarket, but also a
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We just happened upon this construction the other day, and figured we'd share. 125 and 127 N. 11th St. were, as recently as a couple of years ago, older buildings that looked as though they could use a facelift. The corner space had been home to a business called Juanita
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