The owners of 625-29 Earp St. are planning to expand these buildings, which currently house Apex Plumbing and Heating.

Couple Tim and Maria Depretoro purchased these buildings last spring for $100K. They also own the building next door, 631 Earp St.

According to the zoning application, the owners are planning new 2nd

A little over a year ago, Mugshots, a Fairmount Ave. stalwart for several years, opened a new location at 2831 Girard Ave., in Brewerytown. It was hailed as an important new addition to the Girard Ave. retail corridor, and another indication that Brewerytown was on the come.

Just two doors down

Months ago, we told you about a stalled project on Bodine St., next to a somewhat monolithic new duplex that floated over a small parking lot. As of a few weeks ago, the project is finally moving forward, as four long-poured foundations are finally getting houses framed above them.

Four single

Over the past few months, we've told you a couple of times about the the conversion of the former Calvary Church at 16th & Fairmount to ten condo units by Loonstyn Bros. LLC. This impressive adaptive reuse of an old church gives us hope that some other endangered church buildings might be saved, preserving

Last month, we stood around and witnessed the delivery and installation of the modular pieces for North 28, an important Brewerytown residential development. When we were over there, some of the components had already been assembled, and some were still sitting on trucks. What a difference a month makes.

Obviously, it will

Last summer, we wondered what business would someday replace the closed down Savoy Market on the northern side of 1801 Spruce St., and our attention was again drawn to this building a couple of weeks ago when we noticed some ongoing facade work.

A PNC ATM and the creatively named Cleaners have been a

Our coverage of Francisville has dropped off somewhat in the past few months (give us a break, winter's kind of slow!), but things are still moving along in this up-and-coming neighborhood. Three projects are ongoing on the 800 block of 15th St., vastly improving a block that clearly needed (and

One way to get out of a failing business is to slip out in the middle of the night without telling the landlord.

That is how the tenant who planned to open a bicycle repair shop in the tiny space at 25th and Aspen Sts., across from toddler Lemon Hill in Fairmount, left his

Half a dozen readers have frantically emailed us this week, asking about the brand new "For Rent" signs adorning the building on the northwest corner of 21st and South Sts., long promised to be the home of a second location for the wildly successful brunch spot, Honey's Sit 'n Eat.

Well, we're

A couple of readers have asked us about 420-42 Fairmount Ave., a huge warehouse that stretches all the way to Wallace St. This place is as ugly as it is large.

Though you might not guess this if you just drive by, this building is currently in use. Trans Atlantic Company,