Last week, we mentioned the good work that MM Partners is doing the corner of Taney St. and Girard Ave., rehabbing a former hardware store with plans to turn it into the nicest restaurant in Brewerytown. While we were up there, we checked in on their biggest project at the

In June, we detailed a proposal from Universal Companies to tear the rear off the historic Royal Theater for the purpose of building market rate houses fronting Kater St. That plan also involved preserving the facade and using the remains of the building for "community space." In looking at the

 
If you haven't been in the neighborhood lately, you may have missed the development at 901 Walnut St., the new Jefferson University building currently under heavy construction. Expected to be completed next Spring, this 11-story building will increase clinical, academic, and administrative space, and became necessary with the dramatic expansion

Last week, we mentioned tremendous construction activity happening on the 500 block of Washington Ave. The same day, we took a gander down 5th St. and noticed what appears to be progress at a long-time eyesore. For years, there's been a hole at the corner of 5th and Federal, surrounded

Pretty much across the street from the extremely popular Honey's Sit n' Eat, Callahan & Ward Properties are halfway through the construction of their Four Squared development at 817-23 N. 4th St. The first two of the four houses are completed, with one currently under contract. 819 N 4th St.,

The media hyped Irene tremendously and most of us made it through unscathed. While it's easy to shrug off the buildup to the storm as a product of the ratings-hungry local and national media, the threat was present, preparation was a good idea, and damage did occur in Philadelphia. A

As you may recall, a couple of months ago we sarcastically ranted about the impending addition of another Dunkin Donuts to the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. Whelp, D&D was rejected last month by the ZBA due to what we understand to be neighborhood opposition, so the future was seemingly up

Leithgow St. is one of those north/south streets in Philadelphia that disappears and reappears as you travel through town. Between 4th and 5th Sts., Leithgow has a solid presence in Northern Liberties, running nearly contiguously between Brown and Thompson Sts. Last week, we were looking for some information on an

It was less than a month ago that we first noticed movement at 19th and Catharine Sts. for the first time in years. When we last checked in, the builders were preparing to pour the foundations for the five houses fronting Dorrance St. We were assuming at that time that

A couple of weeks ago, the Potbelly Sandwich Shop at 12th and Walnut Sts. closed, leaving a commercial vacancy on a prominent corner in the Gayborhood/Midtown Village/Whatever You Want to Call It. According to Mealticket, a Chipotle might be the replacement tenant, but that rumor is unconfirmed at this time.