In 1977, Gallery I opened at Market East, bookended by Strawbridge and Clothier to the east and Gimbels to the west. This urban mall was an effort to compete with the suburban shopping experience, which had grown considerably in the years prior. While the Strawbridge's building had been in use

In the winter of 2008, 709 S 6th St. pretty much exploded, according to this news report from 6ABC. A gas leak was the suspected cause of the collapse, which resulted in a shower of debris coating the street and damage to several neighboring homes. Within a year and a

You may recall, we told you over a year ago about developer Steve Rodriguez's plan to build a four story, mixed-use building on the triangular lot at 24th & Grays Ferry. The building, by Campbell Thomas and LABhaus, had been delayed for quite some time because of appeals by a cabal of near neighbors,

If you've been conscious in Philadelphia for more than five minutes, you're acutely aware that we are in possession of a vast number of excellent museums featuring all kinds of fascinating things to see. While Rocky (and the design of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway) made the Philadelphia Museum of Art

A few days ago, we wondered about the failed Cherry Street West development on 23rd Street, between Race and Cherry. In that post, we shared a photo of the long-closed sales office, in a building just to the south of the surface parking lot that was supposed to be home

Although it seems an unlikely location to see a contemporary art gallery, A Poet Art Gallery took over what we think was formerly a convenience store at 4510 Walnut St. and is now in its second year of operation at this in this space. Though a few restaurants are close by,

At the risk of sounding redundant, we’ve got two Francisville updates for you regarding two projects close enough to one another for any high-school starting third basemen to heave a ball between the two.

The first, is 1900 Poplar Street, a project from TBM Group. What was last summer a large stone

For over a year, we've been keeping you abreast of developments at 2101 Christian St., one of the most outstanding and thoughtful rehabs we've seen in quite awhile. Since last April (as in 2011), the buzz has been that the owners and renovators of the property would be opening and

A reader checked in the other day, wondering about Cherry Street West, a large development that was once proposed for a surface parking lot at 23rd & Cherry. The sign on the site is faded and graffitied, and our first guess was that the project was probably dead.

As you might

You may remember last week, when we profiled a couple of former cinemas on Chestnut Street which have been turned into retail stores. In the heyday of moving picture houses, there were over fifty that were scattered across Center City, with concentrations on Chestnut and Market Streets. But as the