After a five-and-half year run in West Philly, Wake Up Yoga is leaving its current location at 4916 Baltimore Ave., though its Fairmount and South Philly locations will remain open.

“We’re running into a case of a studio not flourishing,” says manager Alane Benson. While numbers at the other locations are positive, in

More than 30 percent of Philly’s impervious surfaces are associated with residential locations. In a city where the green canopy is lacking, the actions one can take to improve the sustainability of one’s own home are a great opportunity to do good for the planet.

Rain Check is a new neighborhood pilot program

We were in the neighborhood today and spotted a liquor license application on the boarded up front of 1305 Locust St., right next door to the wildly popular NEST. This location was home to Camac for a couple of years, and to Girasole for many years before that, before their

We've wondered about the northeast corner of 2nd and Brown Sts. for years, curious as to why nobody has yet developed the self-proclaimed "Best Corner Left in Northern Liberties." This location was once the home to the NoLibs Meat building, but has been a vacant lot for years. According to

In Queen Village, a Chinese fast-food take-out restaurant that opened a few months ago has caused some concerns for local neighbors. It seems that the owners opened their eatery, located at 942 S. 5th St., without proper permits or zoning.

Owners appeared before the Queen Village Neighborhood Association (QVNA) zoning committee at its meeting this

In March 2011, developer Mial Incorporated went before the ZBA with plans to construct five new homes at 1910-18 Alter St., in Point Breeze. The block, as it's currently constituted, has mostly two-story homes on the south side of the street, along with a couple of large, vacant lots. On

Yesterday, we told you about the new bike shop that's potentially coming to the 1400 block of Frankford Ave., in Fishtown. Just down the street is a project we first told you about back in October, before it broke ground.

Next to the Bicycle Stable is an empty lot, owned by the folks

A large warehouse space in Point Breeze could become the newest and most exciting development in the neighborhood in the very near future. We know, it's tough to believe that someone could be planning something more exciting than a mixed-use development property with a pharmacy on Point Breeze Ave. or

In Philly, urban farming projects are becoming almost as popular as Midtown Village's Restaurant Row.

When it's launched this April, the West Philly Fresh Food Hub mobile food truck will bring high quality, produce, dairy, free-range eggs and more to the Belmont neighborhood along Lancaster Avenue between 37th and 40th Streets, and surrounding areas.

“We are trying to

Just yesterday, we told you about seven houses on the way at 614-20 N. American St. in Northern Liberties. Today, through the magic of electronic communication, we present renderings for these new homes, courtesy or architects Harman Deutsch.

Looking at the renderings, we can see our inference from the zoning application