
A month ago, a large warehouse at 2nd & Wharton caught fire, ruining a couple of neighboring properties and causing dozens of neighbors to spend their afternoons watching the building burn while standing in the street.
A couple of weeks ago, we believe the City stepped in, demolishing about half of
Read MorePennsylvania 6 Is Coming Soon to Former Tweed Space
16 January, 2013 | No Comments | Washington Square West
A year and a half ago, we gave you the rundown on the extremely sketchy disappearance of Tweed from their popular and well appointed Wash West location. For nearly a year, the space at 114 S. 12th St. sat vacant, with little activity to speak of; that is until Michael
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Just the other day, the good people at Plan Philly (in partnership with Azavea) released a cool new web tool called License to Inspect. We took a few minutes to mess around with it, and we've got to say it's a welcome addition to our own toolbox, trying to understand the
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University City, University City. Oh how there’s so much building these days in your part of town. When the projects are finished, it will mean a new Market Street west of 30th Street Station. One that area administrations have dreamed about for decades.
First, there’s the new Drexel business school. This past
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Almost exactly a year ago, we first told you about plans for NextFab Studio, “a membership-based, high-tech workshop and prototyping center,” to move from West Philly to an old warehouse at 2025 Washington Ave.
In case you don't recall and don't feel like going back and reading our well-written and informative original
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For the 5100 block of Chester Ave. in West Philly, Farm 51 could represent an important marker in the rebuilding process for a block.
A few years ago, the northwestern side of the 5100 block of Chester featured run down homes and a few vacant lots. Before one of those lots
Read MoreChinatown Warehouse Will Be Mostly Converted into Apartments
14 January, 2013 | No Comments | Chinatown
A reader tipped us off the other day after they noticed some construction activity taking place at 908 Cherry St., an old warehouse/factory building. We swung by the building the other day to take a look, but can't say we noticed anything out of the ordinary.
Though we saw no workers
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Nine months ago, we told you about the upcoming second phase of construction on the corner of 2nd & Oxford, where RPM Builders LP was about to add eighteen new apartments to a development that had just seen a dozen units constructed.
As you can see, this new effort features some
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A reader gave us the heads up about some weird structure going up next to the South Street Bridge, on the northern edge of the site that will eventually contain a huge CHOP facility. What the heck is going on here?
We went up to the two gentlemen working on the
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Just yesterday, we told you about the new Metropolitan Cafe space that just opened on the south side of Rittenhouse Square. Today, we have some information about a change that just took place in a commercial space on the north side of the square. According to a story from Philly
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