We were enticed by the "four-story atrium" advertised in this home at 741 S. Second Street, but never found proper photo evidence of such. What we did find was that this Mike McCann three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom listing has something else we hardly ever see: rooms with three windows instead of

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Up until eight years ago, to the best of our knowledge, the corner property at 18th and South Streets was used as a police mini station but has been vacant ever since. The owner (the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, located on Fitzwater Street and 22nd

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Across the street from the abandoned Falcon Candy Company factory in Graduate Hospital is a block of 23rd Street ripe with new three-story roof-decked homes and freshly planted trees. Located around the corner from this factory on an empty corner lot facing the St. Anthony's Senior Residence, Joseph Beller has

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The wheat pastings and neglected facade of 12 N. Third Street would have you believe that only raccoons live there. In what was formerly the headquarters of the kitchen design group Teknika, the property now boasts three floors of work space for Web Linc's second location. President Darren Hill invited us

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If someone was going to bring valet parking to Fishtown, you might as well suspect it'd be Stephen Starr, right? And when his new German-inspired Fishtown beer garden (which now has the official name of Frankford Hall) opens on May 17th, you'll get much more than that. Two ping pong

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This week Joe Schiavo, vice chair of the OCC Developments Committee, informed us that councilman DiCicco has decided that the proposed street closing on Church Street’s one-hundred block will no longer proceed. Schiavo says that councilman DiCicco felt that this was too much of a contentious issue and that the

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"With the help of the Newbold Neighbors Association, our relationship with coffee will be getting a bit stronger. Based in Philadelphia, the Newbold Neighbors Association just launched its very own SeeClickFix contest hoping to stir the pot and wake up the local government. Lasting until May 30th, residents can espresso their concerns through

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A one-level 3,000-square-foot apartment with a garage is pretty hard to find in most cities, nevermind Philadelphia. This three-bedroom and 3.5-bathroom rental at 512 S. Third Street is being offered by Nancy Alperin of Maxwell Realty and includes a large west-facing Juliet balcony, a 16-seat dining room, fireplace, marble bathrooms with

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White Tower Hamburgers, founded in 1926 in Milwaukee, became a national fast food chain essentially looking to one-up White Castle. The fact that the exterior of this burger joint looks like the freshly mopped, white-tile floor of a hospital is no mistake: its intention was to purvey a sense of

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More than seven months ago, the corner at Fourth and McKean in South Philadelphia was the home of an 11-unit apartment building. Since that building caught fire in October of 2010---destroying the apartment building so badly it needed to be torn down (unlike Spread Bagelry)---we've been left with this empty

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