Slated for completion in the spring of 2013, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology is a $100M 78K sqft state-of-the-art facility currently being constructed on the 3200 block of Walnut Street on Penn’s campus in University City.

The project is designed by New York City architects Weiss/Manfredi, the folks who designed Olympic Sculpture Park at

In today's Daily News, Stu Bykofsky writes about the new curb cuts that have popped up across Center City, South Philly, and West Philly in the past six months or so. If you live in these neighborhoods, you've surely noticed that many of your corners have been torn up in

For nearly thirty years, C.R. Ettinger Studio has made a home on Vine Street in Old City, in the "shadow of the Ben Franklin Bridge." Soon, it seems, this studio will be relocating to a new space, joining the burgeoning business scene on South Street West.

CRE Studio LLC purchased 2215

The other night, after a tasty adult beverage at the Industry, we noticed a construction site nearby. The next day, we zoomed back to Pennsport to take a closer look. What we discovered at 1327 E. Moyamensing Ave. is a new single family homes that's been framed out in recent

A couple of months ago, we noticed a sign on the closed Annunciation BVM School at 12th & Wharton, announcing the building's availability for purchase. The school was shut down after the 2011-12 school year, along with numerous other Catholic schools in the region. The building, located across the street

Last week, we told you about the ongoing renovation and expansion at the Hard Rock Cafe on Market Street, next to the Reading Reading Terminal Market. Directly across the street is a vacant commercial space that's been empty now for a couple of years, since sports bar Champps closed a couple of

Six weeks ago, we told you about excavations in preparation for two new foundations on the 2000 block of Ellsworth Street. These lots, in the middle of a block that's seen plenty of new construction and rehabbing in the past few years, had sat vacant for many moons.

We swung by

Speaking of Annin Street, a construction site caught our eye the other day when we were in the Passyunk Square neighborhood. 600 Annin St. was a vacant lot for awhile, and now a new house is rising at this address.

This particular block of Annin dead ends halfway down the block

Across the street from a somewhat controversial lot-turned-garden, fencing went up around another long-vacant lot a few weeks ago, ostensibly in preparation for new construction. As you may have supposed from the signs that are up on the fence, this project will come from OCF Holdings, a sister company of

We were in the neighborhood the other week and spotted a zoning notice on the extremely vacant 1600 block of Master Street. Peering in for a closer look, it became clear that new student housing, seemingly everywhere in this area, would not be on the agenda for this location.

Looking at