We were heading north on 18th Street the other day and noticed that the street now reduces to a single lane as you go north of Vine. The reason, site preparation has begun for the coming Mormon Temple, which will eventually replace two huge parking lots that overlook 676.

Note the

A reader pointed out 262 E. Girard Ave. to us, home of the Philadelphia Martial Arts and Kickboxing Center, to our attention recently, as a new use in a rather old building.

This historic property was, for years, home to the Greentree Tavern and within the last decade apparently contained a

Dear Editors of the Philadelphia Daily News,

Jan Ransom’s December 20th, 2012 story titled “Housing plan sparks debate in Point Breeze” contains so many factual errors that only one of two disappointing possibilities can be true.  Either the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority is engaging in a systematic campaign of misinformation or they simply have no idea

As we've told you numerous times over the past year, MM Partners is a driving force behind the development activity in the Brewerytown neighborhood. And in 2013, they will continue to play the same role. We told you about one of their 2013 projects, Cambridge Row, just the other day.

One of the most appealing off the main thoroughfare neighborhood parks we’ve encountered in a while, sits in West Philly at the corner of 48th and Chester streets, locked up and largely unused.

Squirrel Hill Falls Park was envisioned by local artist Danielle Rousseau Hunter. It’s a cozy forest-like corner pocket

No doubt, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood has experienced some serious changes over the past decade plus. A useful, though slightly dated report from the Fels Institute effectively quantifies these changes in shocking terms. Back in 1998, the neighborhood contained 553 vacant houses. By 2008, there were a mere 49 vacant houses

The building at 1324 Locust Street offers housing and event reception less than a block from the Avenue of the Arts.  But records show that long before this Art Deco structure was erected, the address served as the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church.  Opened in 1850, the Academy’s location is confirmed

A few months ago, we last updated you on the new OCF Cafe, located at 21st & Fairmount, across from the Eastern State Penitentiary. As we told you then, this new cafe will offer more of the same along with something new and different, compared to the two already existing

As you probably heard by now, JetBlue will soon be offering flights out of Philadelphia. This airline has made a name for itself as a lower-priced airline that somehow offers a better customer experience than many of the older carriers. We can't wait until the summer, when we'll have our

Last year, the Philadelphia Housing Authority sold off hundreds of homes in a successful though flawed auction process, relieving itself of a fraction of its inventory of vacant and blighted homes. Despite this effort, PHA still owns over a thousand vacant properties that it clearly doesn't have the capacity to repair