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

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

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

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

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

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

Almost exactly four years ago, Johnny Columbo and Michael Lewis opened Philly Cupcake in an itty storefront on the corner of 12th & Chestnut. A year and a half ago, the duo opened Philly Chocolate at Juniper & Walnut, in the space that formerly contained Naked Chocolate Cafe. And about

One of the seeds on the budding Baltimore Ave. commercial corridor suffered a tragic end on the afternoon of Christmas Eve when Elena’s Soul burnt down just shy of 50th and Baltimore in West Philadelphia.

The hope is its neighboring businesses, Gary’s Nails and the Cedar Park Café, can survive the structural stress created by the

It was the summer of 2011 that we first clued you in that the Garden of the Arts, a community garden on the northeast corner of Broad & South was on the way out, and in its place would soon rise Southstar Lofts, a new mixed-use development by Dranoff Properties. It's been

In the world full of red light districts, Philadelphia now seems to have none. Now that the last porn theatre in Center City is gone, we wonder is it time for a rebirth and a rebranding of 2100 through 2300 Market Street?

Right now it’s a strip of vacant and hardly known storefronts.