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

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

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

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