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

If you've ever visited the Paesano's location on Girard Avenue, you may have noticed a large, fenced-in, vacant lot right next door. This parcel, 148-50 W. Girard Ave., has been vacant for at least a decade according to Google Earth, and we'll let any neighbors reading along chime in to

Over a year ago, we attended a meeting in Francisville where representatives from People for People and Project H.O.M.E. presented details about a huge project which was to replace a vacant triangular loton the eastern end of the neighborhood. At the meeting, the neighborhood supported the project, by a roughly

1319 Locust St. stands out on the north side of its block for its deep red brick edifice and its wrought iron railings. These features hint at the building’s late 19th century construction.  However, this would not be the first known structure to stand on the spot.  According to the Bryn Mawr College website, that honor

Over the summer, we brought an old warehouse at 31st & Spring Garden to your attention, noting the likelihood of new student housing in a vacant lot behind the dilapidated old structure. At the time, we spotted a zoning notice at a vacant lot across the street, on the southeast