We got an email yesterday from a concerned neighbor on Titan Street in Pennsport, telling us about another threatened pocket park in this neighborhood. We immediately flashed back to the situation we told you about last winter, when Manton Street Park was on the verge of being built over before

Developer Birds Eye Development has a project coming to 1206-08 N 7th St., on a kind of dodgy block just north of Girard Avenue. Currently, these addresses include a large vacant lot and a large vacant shell.

According to the zoning application, the plan for this location is to rehab the

Members of the Fishtown Neighbors Association (FNA) have been busy lately. And if their numbers are indicative of anything, it's that Fishtown’s real estate market is gaining momentum. As FNA zoning chair Matt Karp puts it, “there’s no letting up in sight.”

We’ve covered a number of recent Fishtown projects, and a couple of weeks ago

The other day, we got an email from a reader, inquiring about some demolition activity on the 1300 block of S. Howard St., a little block with views of the rear of the Freda Corporation building on Front Street. We took a jaunt over to scope it out, and we

Last week, representatives from Tower Investments went before the ZBA with a proposal to convert 201 Spring Garden St., currently set up as a commercial building, into 17 condo units. Tower has owned the property since 2006, when they purchased the building in a package along with some property on

A reader reached out, asking if we knew anything about 2201 Pine St., an adorable commercial space in a building dominated by an auto garage/parking lot. For months, a 'For Rent' sign hung in this space that was previously, if memory serves, a construction company's office. Now, there's no sign,

The south side of Frankford Avenue has been on our radar for months. Considering all of the commercial activity on the block where already sit the Handle Bar, Barcade, Barbary and more, we wondered what else could soon happen around these parts.

The answer to our question is... there's a ton of potential. First, we stumbled upon the

It's likely you've never seen this building in person. 1021 Ridge Ave. sits almost on top of the Reading Viaduct, surrounded by other Eraserhood-type buildings. Last week, owners PA Ridge Associates went before the ZBA to get a permit for 28 residential units in this rather large, 54K sqft building.

We're

Last week, a reader tipped us off that this Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 1235-37 Federal St. was available for sale.

As opposed to numerous other religious buildings that have gone on the market recently, this building doesn't have any particularly compelling architectural or historical features that make it crucial

We were 4th Street the other day, just north of Girard Avenue, and realized that a ton of development activity is taking place on this block. What brought us here is the upcoming construction of two homes at 1214 N 4th St., which we noticed on today's zoning docket.

According to