In Brewerytown

A story from Michael Klein clued us in a couple weeks ago about the recently opened Sarah's Place at 29th & Flora in Brewerytown. This building was, for many years, home to Sara's Place, which shut its doors a few years back. But new owners from MM Partners, a company that's

At the corner of 26th & Poplar, a vacant warehouse cries out for redevelopment. And its cries might just be answered sometime soon.View from the eastThe 12,000 sqft building sits on the border between Brewerytown and Fairmount. To the south is a lovely residential neighborhood. To the north is the

Last year, we brought 2940 W. Thompson St. to your attention, noting that the vacant one story warehouse that had been owned for decades by PHDC and was under agreement with an unknown party. At the time, we suggested that the parcel held a lot of value, and the building

We've written about 2835-37 W. Girard Ave. twice before, once to bring the blighted property to your attention and a second time to inform the world that it was for sale. For those unfamiliar with the property's history, it suffered a fire around 2008 and has been vacant ever since.

We've seen a bunch of redevelopment near 31st & Baltz in recent years. Just yesterday for example, we told you about a bunch of apartments under construction just a half a block away. 30 Baltz, located on 30th Street, is an apartment building that's now finished and looks sweet. And

Early this summer, we spotted new construction activity at 31st & Thompson, behind the still kind-of new Brewerytown Bottom Dollar. We were pleased to fill you in on the project, dubbed 31 Brewerytown, as Westrum's newest venture into the neighborhood where they previously built Brewerytown Square. When we passed by

Last year, we wondered how new construction, ostensibly for student housing, would fit into the context of the Diamond Street Historic District near Temple. At the time, we didn't realize that there's a second historically protected section of Diamond Street in Strawberry Mansion. The West Diamond Street Townhouse Historic District

A couple years back, we told you about plans for the renovation of a blighted building on the southwest corner of 24th & Thompson, where Brewerytown meets Sharswood. At the time, we were excited to hear that the old building would be renovated, and were likewise pleased to see development

Yesterday, a reader tipped us off about a renovation in process at 2439 N. College Ave., across the street from the stone walls surrounding Girard College. It's an unusual parcel with a combination of a one-story corner commercial space and a three-story row home on one lot. We couldn't tell

The 2700 block of W. George St., which runs between Cambridge and Poplar Streets, is pretty desolate. It's got a bunch of vacant lots that people park on, and nothing by way of buildings with the exception of a small section of a warehouse that fronts 28th Street. The reason