If you're any kind of regular reader of this here blog, you're keenly aware of the amount of residential new construction activity going on in Fishtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. Often, we find ourselves covering larger scale, sexier projects, like Norris Square at Norris & Trenton, or five units replacing

Last year, we told you about a confusing building under construction at 1233 S Broad St., covering up a mural of "zombie" Frank Sinatra and immediately next door to a Lukoil station. Here's a shot of the building under construction:

Three condo units have been on the market for a couple

The Social Security Administration is moving into a new building at 43rd and Market when it is completed this summer. They’ll savor the new digs until our populace’s social security benefits run out sometime around 2033, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. Then we’ll all account for ourselves, right? Well... maybe not.

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In March, we told you about plans to develop the northeast corner of 2nd and Brown Sts., which is currently a vacant lot. This project at 801 N. 2nd St., the self-proclaimed "Best Corner Left in Northern Liberties," was approved yesterday by the ZBA.

As we told you weeks ago, realtor

Spread Bagelry is expanding its business. At 269 S. 20th St., directly across the street from the current store, its owners are adding Spread Baked Goods. While the original shop offers Montreal-style bagels with spreads and sandwich fillings, the new venture will offer loose bagels, muffins and sweet baked treats. Perhaps

Philadelphia Style Magazine... home to Philadelphia’s well-heeled debutantes, its immaculately groomed beautiful people, its denizens of the finer things.  The high society print publication, founded in 1998 and reaching a circulation of roughly 70,000 readers, is headquartered on the quiet Queen Village block of League Street between Front & 2nd.

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Last week, we gave you the heads up about a proposed mixed-use development at the corner of 19th and Fairmount Ave., currently a vacant lot with a lovely Noam Chomsky mural. On Monday, neighbors in the Francisville neighborhood voted to support this project. Looking at this thread on Philadelphia Speaks,

We've covered vacant commercial spaces on South Street ad nauseum, and today we have a spot of good news regarding a space we've never even brought to your attention. The northeast corner of 2nd and South Sts., just a block south of the Shambles, has been empty for years. Honestly,

Last fall, we reported the upscale sandwich shop/deli Carter’s Deli  at 2222 Brown St. in Fairmount was a go, despite some neighbors’ efforts to block the shop.

The deli has yet to materialize, and all we see are signs in the window for JBS Renovations Painting and Remodeling. What gives?

Turns out about two months ago

Rosa Court, a seventeen home development on the 1300 block of Federal St., has always mystified us. Built about five years ago and designed by Landmark Architectural Design, these homes stick out big-time in an area that has relatively little one-off new construction activity, let alone new developments of this