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Ah, the seemingly cursed Cameron Square project at 19th & Wylie- could it finally be moving forward? Here's a refresher on this property, in case you haven't been taking notes over the years. In 2010, the Hankin Group bought this 1.5 acre lot from the City for $900K, controversially winning the right to

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Not to beat a dead horse here, but we're none too fond of surface parking lots. We get it, people come into Philadelphia from out of town and street parking is not sufficient. And those cars have to go somewhere. Downtown though, parking garages are infinitely preferable to surface lots,

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4112 Pechin St. is a rather unusual property in a desirable section of Roxborough, but its atypical character isn't necessarily obvious from the street. The property is nominally the site of a single twin home which has been sitting vacant for a number of years. We see violations dating back at

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There's a four-story building at 2501 Oakford St. which was obviously constructed for industrial purposes, hearkening back to a time in Philadelphia's history when manufacturing played a prominent role in the local economy. The building was constructed in the early 20th century as a factory for Howard Clothes, a men's clothing

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The shopping center at the northeast corner of 2nd & Christian sticks out like a sore thumb at this Queen Village corner. After all, this neighborhood is one of the gems of Philadelphia in terms of architecture, and is home to countless beautiful townhomes and numerous examples of older buildings

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Broad Street just south of Washington Avenue has a few different projects under construction at the moment. At Broad & Alter, work has proceeded on a 53-unit mixed-use building which suffered a delay of a couple years between presentation and groundbreaking. A 62-unit building at Broad & Ellsworth has moved at blazing

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About a month and a half ago, we told you that a big change was in store for 416 Spring Garden St., a 1.5 acre property which is currently home to a one-story building and a surface parking lot. The building has been the headquarters of Northeast Treatment Centers since at least the

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Back in March, we covered a new project coming to 2401 Frankford Ave., excitedly sharing the news that this corner would soon pick up a new mini-Flatiron building to call its own. At the time, we also discussed this nightmarish intersection, where Frankford Avenue, E. York Street, and Trenton Avenue meet at a five-and-a-half

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Most of our stories about student housing in West Philly these days center around new projects springing up in neighborhoods farther and farther flung from the schools that the students are attending. As we've seen, new construction has moved way up into Mantua, way down into Southwest Philly, and is starting to

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The fiasco around the closure of Hahnemann Hospital will take years to unwind. As we and others have detailed before, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Paladin Healthcare partnered to purchase the hospital from Tenet in 2018 and they didn't even make it two years before closing the hospital down. When

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