When Urban Jungle on 1526 East Passyunk Avenue first opened its doors in December of 2009, owner and president Curtis Alexander sold Christmas trees to the neighborhood. Two years and $100K of building rehabilitation later has converted Urban Jungle into a full service landscaper, classroom and retail store.

The store’s home

Classic Lighting is a life’s passion gobbled up under a warehouse ceiling. Opulent and historically significant lamps, chandeliers, statues adorn the ceilings, floors and walls. It’s a humbling experience to walk starry-eyed through someone's life’s work and passion. That someone is owner Thomas Fasone, who has been collecting his hearts

Coldwell Banker's $2.3M carriage home at 2020 Chancellor Street was renovated by Sandvold Blanda architects. The property has two bedrooms, three bathrooms, a one-car garage (not the carriage doors on Chancellor, those lend light to the media room), rooftop deck, Bulthaup kitchen, an illuminated glass block wall and tons of open spaces

Finding out more information about this project is as difficult as finding a tenant for a 55,000-square-foot space.  As of now, all we can tell you, is that 55,000 square feet of office and retail space will be coming to 1155 S. Broad Street. The project is 1/3 the

With around 90 flavors, chocolate cones and Oreo cake to treat your dessert needs in this clothes-stickin’ heat, Philly Flavors at 2004 Fairmont Avenue is expanding this season to include seating next door at 2006 Fairmount Avenue, the former location of the Wine School. Come mid-July, about 25 new seats

According to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Indices (the industry leader that tracks and measures U.S. home prices) America’s housing price index has dropped 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011. Translation: if you bought a house four months ago for $300K, today it would be worth $287,940. Yes,

Don’t be fooled by the old sign still hanging over 736 South 8th Street. Vesuvio is long gone; replaced by a much sexier, and more interesting relative: Little Bar. Over the years, owner and manager Mike D’Addesi has given the building several modifications. Originally an Italian fine dining restaurant, Vesuvio was

Hammers are clanking and saws are buzzing at 2026 Fairmount Avenue the site that for at least the past three years has been a vacant eyesore on the main street in the neighborhood where it intersects Corinthian Avenue across the street from the Eastern State Penitentiary. In the next few

The worker we stopped at 2056 Pine Street tells us that a hair salon is taking the spot. Taking a peak inside, we can tell it's a long way off (it's completely gutted and waiting for some love). The address was the former corner spot of Andro's Sweets & Treats,

In eight weeks John Garbarino hopes to finish work on 1910 South Street. His plans for the building includes four apartments with "all the upgrades," two of which will be bi-level units. All apartments are two bedrooms and one bath, and he hopes to get $2K a month for each,