Lombardi's, located at 132 S. 18th St., is one of the more delicious pizza places we've visited in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, it's been closed for seven years, the building has been torn down, and a middling restaurant and a bunch of really expensive condos have taken its place.

Oh, we've survived these

As you are probably well aware, our school district has been dealing with severe financial issues for the past few years. One way that they are attempting to make up for budget shortfalls is by (slowly) selling off vacated school buildings. We've been covering this intermittently over the last year,

If you've lived in Philly for a minute, you've come to realize the wealth of dive bars that we possess in this fine town of ours. South Philly has a good but shrinking selection, with luminaries such as Ray's and Bonnie's Capistrano Bar heading a group of dimly lit, often

A few weeks ago, we told you about 225 Carpenter St., a new construction residential property in Queen Village that was utilizing questionable materials in the cladding of its facade. Additionally, the builders were apparently building too tall, and without proper permits.

A reader checked in the other day and gave

Last spring, we told you about plans for a nice new building on a long-vacant lot on the northeast corner of 19th & Fairmount. We hadn't seen any progress at the site in the half a year since. That is, until the other day.

Yes folks, ground has broken at 1833-39

Back in November, we gave you the good news that Spring Arts Point, developer Lawrence Rust's large residential development centered around 10th & Mount Vernon, was restarting construction after taking a few years between building phases. We were back in the area the other day, and snapped a couple of

Now that City crews have demolished a strip of buildings at the southwest corner of Farragut and Market Streets right near the 46th Street El Station to ostensibly make way for Enterprise Heights, we wonder how much of the initial plans for this stalled-for-a-decade $75M project are part of the present plans.

Enterprise

It was almost a year ago that we told you, as part of a longer post about several projects on the block, about 809 and 811 N 15th St., two homes that had just been gutted. Looking back at a Google Street View photo from 2009, it seems likely that

In Walnut Hill, The Paul Robeson House at the corner of 50th & Walnut stands as a living monument to neighborhood revitalization through remembering its history. It’s to rebuilding in Walnut Hill as Mural Arts is to beautifying blank building walls in neighborhoods across the city.

Today, the house stands as monument to

Recently, we broke the good news that the western end of Market Street in Center City was finally experiencing a much-needed cleanup, with two undesirable businesses finally shutting their doors. Today, we have more good news from the "long time coming on Market Street" department. You may recall, we've been