Last Friday night on the way to our favorite piano bar, we noticed (via note on the door at 2006 Chestnut Street) that Jolly Weldon, owner of Jolly's Dueling Piano Bar, has moved his bar to the Academy House at 1420 Locust Street. We missed the official opening last Friday,

The Philadelphia School has plans to recycle the former Licenses and Inspections maintenance garage on the property at 2501 South Street into a multipurpose space for student performances, assemblies and all-school community gatherings. Additional development on the property includes construction of a one-story Early Childhood Center with four

The former dilapidated 20-year-old Doggy World at 858 N. Third Street is now the bright non-profit charity Operation Ava and soon-to-be for-profit Pet Mechanic. Nine-year-old Ava Guitierrez, daughter of Claudia (CEO of Operatrion Ava and COO and senior vice president of Doggie Style) began the business to provide rescue and adoption

The existing AAA building at 2040 Market will soon be a mixed-use residential/commercial building with 235 apartments, 15,000-square-feet of retail on the ground floor and 200 underground parking spaces. PMC Property Group acquired the 155,787-square-feet, six-story office building from NorthStar Realty for $8.3 million or about $52 per square foot, according to the CoStar

On Sunday, March 6, seven artists got together for The Winter Art Festival at 2628 Martha Street. This was one of the first art festivals to be held at The Hatchatory, the collection of small-business office spaces in a renovated Fishtown warehouse. Tenants here rent pet-friendly modern lofts with original exposed

The abandoned St. Boniface Church of West Kensington held its last service in 2006 and the building has been vacant ever since. During the last year of the church’s life, it's been in the worst shape we've seen it and the deterioration has become overwhelming. Stained glass windows were replaced

The brand-new 24-acre development at the Western bank of the Schuylkill River between Walnut and South Streets in University City has been dubbed Penn Park, as many fans already know. Besides obvious reasons for building the park, the idea behind this development is to better connect University City and Center City;

Marine Corp vet Robert " Banjo Bobby" Pfenning rests his violin on his thigh as passersby applaud his music on the side of Oregon Avenue.

There are many reasons why we were apprehensive about posting this information but withholding it would do more harm than good.
Joseph Reilly of Joseph N. Reilly Real Estate is in financial distress in a big way. Reilly manages many homes and condos for various owners, many of who never received

A recent solicitation from the Fraternal Order of Police seems innocuous enough as a fundraiser for City Council candidate Bobby Henon. The April 28 cocktail reception to support the campaign sounds fun (we weren't invited however) but there is one thing we did notice, thanks to help from an anonymous