In December, we told you about five homes replacing empty lots at 2001-09 W. Oxford St., a few blocks north of the Girard College campus. At the time, the developers had just gone to zoning. Now, these buildings have been framed out and are getting facades.

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Chester A Arthur elementary school, located at the intersection of 20th and Catharine Streets, will be getting an exciting new addition in the coming weeks. The school controls the entire block, with the building running from Catharine Street to Webster Street, and about 1/2 of the way down the block

A neighbor spotting a zoning application at 827 Corinthian Ave. and asked us to find out what's going on here. Just a block north of the Eastern State Penitentiary, this block sports beautiful three story brownstones, many of which appear to have been very well maintained over the years.

Considering this

A reader gave us the heads up about two zoning notices on vacant lots on 31st St. in Brewerytown, next door to a new construction home that we've actually told you about in the past. So we headed over there yesterday and snapped a couple of photos.

As promised, we did

We passed by 12 S 20th St. today, and were surprised to see business being conducted at this miserable Center City retail location. We don't remember all of the concepts that have operated out of this space over the years, but we do remember that many have tried and all

We were in the neighborhood today, driving around and snapping photos of all the new construction projects going on around Temple, where the latest crop of graduates emerged into a white hot job market just last week. Were we generally aggravated by the number of closed streets due to said

Fletcher Street runs north-ish by south-ish through Fishtown, though it disappears and reappears repeatedly as you trek through the neighborhood. By the time we found the 1200 block of Fletcher Street, right off of Girard Ave., we'd made three wrong turns and almost ended up on I-95. We did eventually

According to the ZBA, we could soon see some new homes go up near 5th and George Sts., in Northern Liberties. 973-75 N. 5th St., a 4,400 sqft parcel that includes an empty lot, a row-home like building, and a bunch of warehouse space that fronts Orkney St., was put

A couple of weeks ago, we brought a new, nearly complete mixed-use building at 12th and Latona Sts. to your attention, mentioning the beginnings of interior demolition work at the large, vacant warehouse next door. This will be the site of the second, much larger phase of this development, which

Last month, we confirmed that CVS was indeed coming to South Street West, replacing a surface parking lot.

The other day, we noticed that work has begun at the site at 22nd and South Sts., with the old fence removed, concrete and dirt moved around, and some lovely, mature trees coming down.

It's