Gather the People Sanctuary, run by Pastor Yvonne Yates, is building a new church at at the corner of 15th and Clearfield Sts. in North Philly, close to Temple University Hospital. According to the zoning application, the church will be relocating lot lines to assemble one lot from nine existing

According to a report today on Philly.com, the American Commerce Center, planned to be the tallest building in Philadelphia, ain't gonna happen. The 60K sqft lot on which it was to have been built, 1800 Arch St., was purchased earlier this month by Liberty Property Trust. Liberty, who developed the

With Hurricane Irene on her way, let's take a look at the worst hurricane to hit Philadelphia in modern history. Hurricane Hazel ripped her way through North America in October of 1954 and this thing was a monster. It hit Haiti first, and after it made landfall

We recently got an email from a reader asking about the weird vacancy on the corner of 40th and Chestnut Sts., across the street from Distrito.

For those of you unfamiliar with that corner, the Hub is the prominent building anyone would notice right away. It was constructed almost five years

PT Real Estate Capital, acquirer of distressed and undervalued assets, is in the final stages of renovating the northwest corner of 12th & Spruce.  This five story, 12,000 square foot historic building was constructed back in 1907 and housed the national headquarters for the Grand United

Located at the corner of 47th St. and Cedar Ave., the Suzuki Piano Academy is a music school that opened up last year in West Philadelphia, in the space formerly occupied by the famous Carrot Cake Man. The school utilizes the Suzuki Method, which models its techniques after language acquisition

Mike Stollenwerk, who arrived on the local scene in 2007 when he took over Little Fish, has been moving at a frenetic pace recently, opening Fish and Fathom Seafood House in the past two years, and apparently opening a larger Fish in the near future. He has another project coming

It looks like Charlie's Pub, which closed back in April when they lost their lease at 114 N 3rd St, has been denied approval by both the Old City Civic Association and Zoning Board for their planned relocation to 17 N 3rd St. As previously reported, even though owners Charlie

On a block with a number of $800K homes, Kater St. Development is constructing a new house, with another on the way in short order. This lot was originally owned by the developers responsible for Kater Court across the street, but for whatever reason they decided to sell the lot

We got a tip from a reader about a hole in the ground at 5th and Washington Ave., so we headed over there to investigate. When we got there, we found so much construction activity that we weren't even sure what hole they were referring to.

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