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

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

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

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