The northeast corner of 33rd & Berks has been sitting vacant for decades, since at least the 1970s, and was used as a gas station prior. As is the case with so many vacant lots in this town, the City of Philadelphia eventually took ownership of this property, foreclosing in

Holy moly, has the west side of the 1800 block of Frankford changed over the years. The transformation of this block, which has completely turned over since 2007, puts an incredibly fine point on what's been happening on this corridor and in Fishtown in general during this time period. Honestly,

Just about everyone agrees that Fitler Square is one of the cutest neighborhoods in Philadelphia, lined with mature trees and home to the eponymous Fitler Square itself, as well as the Markward Playground and its associated park, athletic field, and dog park. Fitler Square is technically a sub-neighborhood of Rittenhouse,

Demolition of old churches has been a rather common theme during Philadelphia's unprecedented wave of redevelopment over the last twenty years or so. The mechanics of this make all the sense in the world. As neighborhoods change, the congregations that counted near neighbors as regular worshipers see their membership dwindle

A unique building stands at the northwest corner of 7th & Snyder, and it possesses some fascinating history. We detailed this history at length back in 2014, so here's a quick summary. A church was constructed at this corner in the late 19th century, and the building was converted into

Two new projects will soon change the corner of 7th & Cecil B Moore in a dramatic fashion, and these projects will take very different forms. This location is on the edge of South Kensington, in an area that's full of PHA homes and vacant land. But as South Kensington

Before people walked around with supercomputers in their pockets, before television offered us unlimited channels or even a handful of channels, people learned about what was going on in the world almost exclusively through newspapers. The newspaper business was a great business to be in back in the 1800s and

Surely you've heard the idiom 'money in the bank,' used to express a level of certainty about a thing occurring. Maybe you've also heard it to describe a wrestling pay purview event, but we digress. The idiom relates to the fact that putting money in the bank is a secure

Over the years, we've pointed out countless properties in Philadelphia that needed to get zoning variances in order to pursue reasonable redevelopment, due to inappropriate and/or outdated zoning maps. We've lamented the number of commercial corridors whose properties are zoned CMX-2, which requires ground-floor commercial but only permits two stories

The Northbank project is located at 2001 Beach St., and as we've told you before, it's one of the largest private residential developments in Philadelphia history. The property covers roughly 30 acres of Delaware waterfront, and though it's technically located inside of Fishtown's neighborhood boundaries, its size and location on