Parklets. A cute term? Perhaps. A cute strip of land? Okay. A cute idea? Sure. University City’s second temporary street park this summer will be installed next month at 261 S. 44th St. in front of Honest Tom’s Taco Shop and the Lil Pop Shop, around the corner from Local 44.

“Our Parklets were partly inspired by

Last summer, we told you about six homes going up on the western end of the 2000 block of Annin Street, one of the bleakest blocks in the neighborhood. While those homes were progressing, another developer decided to build a house next door at 2044 Annin St., and the sale

It's been years since Philadelphia was referred to as the "Next Borough" in the New York Times, but there's no doubt that New York based businesses are starting to notice Philadelphia and take it seriously as a location for expansion. The hype for Shake Shack, as we discussed at length, was

On the southern edge of Brewerytown, a large parcel on the northwest corner of 26th & Poplar sits vacant and blighted. Overgrown and surrounded by an unsightly green fence, it's caught our eye for years. We're thinking that the time has come for something positive to happen at this otherwise

A good bit more development is in on the way in Northern Liberties, including the transformation of the historically designated building that currently houses Color Reflections into ten residential units, with a ground-floor commercial space. The address of the building, in case you're unfamiliar, is 542-44 N. 4th St.

Though attorney David Orphanides has

Last week, at the monthly SOSNA zoning meeting, developer Steve Shklovsky of MetroImpact presented plans for the redevelopment on 1000 S. Bouvier St. (pronounced Boo-veer), currently a two-story home. This development would be immediately adjacent to the duplex that Metro has nearly completed on the corner of 18th & Carpenter, a project we told

Back in January, we shared the news about the upcoming development of the Center for Culinary Enterprise (CCE), Philly’s first kitchen incubator, located at 310 South 48th St.

The originally envisioned July opening date has nearly passed. Recently, the folks at The Enterprise Center, the West Philly-based business-growth-catalyst geared towards assisting high-potential minority entrepreneurs

If you live in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood or you watch the local news, you certainly already know all about this.

But in case you don't, take a look at these photos, taken last night around 10pm:

Around 9pm last night, a 48-inch water transmission main broke at 21st & Bainbridge. The

Over the last month, we've wrote a few times about the signage saga of Reyes Grocery, in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. The other day, we were meandering around Francisville, and noticed some new signage at Papi Grocery, at 20th & Parrish. We've actually talked about this corner before, as a

In December, we told you about the demolition of the Sidney Hillman Medical Center, a modernist building next to a much smaller but still historic building originally designed by William Eyre. In the months since, construction has progressed at this site at 2116 Chestnut St., though there's still plenty of work to