We got the heads up from a reader that a zoning notice had recently gone up at 1109 N. American St., a kind of disgusting looking garage building immediately to the north of One Shot Coffee and across the street from the progressing Stable Flats project. We took a wee

One way development and improvement projects are incubated at public institutions in a city facing a stressed budget, is through workshops organized by smaller organizations who connect the necessary professionals to the communities in need.

The goal is for the project to go from the whiteboard to the parcel, so to

A reader checked in the other day, wondering about the wooden fenced lot at 1509 Locust St., next door to Misconduct Tavern. We stopped by the bar yesterday and confirmed that the bar is expanding into this lot, and that construction is already underway.

According to the server we chatted with, the bar

You've probably never heard of Winding Roses Park, even if you live in Francisville, where it's located. According to a Daily News article, the park was established in the 1990s and used by neighbors to celebrate happy occasions or to gather to mourn loved ones lost. Its use has declined

We were on the 1800 block of Frankford Ave. last week and spotted some new construction that we hadn't previously heard about. So clearly, we decided to do some sniffing around to see what we could learn.

1849 Frankford Ave. was purchased by M2cr2 LLC in September, apparently from the City. We've

In August, a long-vacant commercial space and a trash-strewn lot became a shiny new cafe and a landscaped garden space at 20th & Federal. In the months since, two new residential projects have sprouted from the ground in the immediate vicinity, and are progressing at roughly the same pace. We've

Over the past year or so, a new thirty-three unit apartment building has been going up at 15th & Fairmount, replacing an old seafood warehouse and a former nuisance bar. We've brought some updates to you over that time, most recently in an incidental fashion when we checked in last

In October, we told you about three homes in the works for the corner of York & Amber, having just noticed a hole in the ground on the corner. A few months, later, one home is framed out.

From what we hear, two more Postgreen homes are on the way in

Over the summer, a new corner store opened on the corner of 20th & Carpenter, and soon after put up some signage that could generously be described as incredibly ugly.

Near neighbors, offended by the sight of the signs on a daily basis, worked with the owners of the corner store to

A reader checked in the other day, wondering about a recent demolition of a long blighted home on 20th St., just north of Fairmount. Turns out, we told you that this was going to happen to 735 N 20th St. about a month ago.

Back in December, when we pointed out