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

Well, insofar as it exists, we guess it's better.

You may recall, over the summer, we told you that the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office was lacking a website. We labeled this office an embarrassment at this time, citing their inability to put together a simple website, considering they have an annual budget

A very Merry Christmas from Naked Philly, OCF Realty, and OCF Coffee House!

Photo credit: Yoni Avital

A sprawling six-acre property that backs up to Cobbs Creek Park is for sale on eBay for $4.5M. Perhaps an internet giant might be interested in the site. Or an established institution looking to expand.

Originally constructed as the Baptist Orphanage in 1885, according to the ad, 1300 S. 58 St. was most recently owned

In the past couple of years, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood has seen a new wave of high-end development projects consisting of several town homes being built all at once, with prices exceeding $600K per house. Some, but not all of these developers, have used land formerly occupied by churches to

It's been two and a half years, but it looks like it's finally going to happen. We last checked in on the Honey's Sit 'n Eat 21st & South location about ten months ago, and from the outside, little has changed.

But according to the wise and all-knowing Michael Klein, it

Back in April, groundbreaking took place for a new Home2 Suites by Hilton on the corner of 12th & Arch. This corner had been a parking lot for many years, and we were excited last year when we first heard about this plan.

Unfortunately, as the hotel has risen from the ground,