In Brewerytown

Baby step by baby step, the West Girard Avenue corridor is seeing improvements. In the last couple of years, the opening of a new Bottom Dollar at 31st Street probably represented the biggest addition, but there are plenty of other residential and commercial developments that have cropped up, with several

Right around Christmas time, we first told you about plans for ten new homes scattered over four blocks of Cambridge Street on the Fairmount/Brewerytown border. This project was to involve a partnership between developers MMPartners and Fairmount CDC purchasing blighted PHA properties, and redeveloping them into nine market-rate homes and one home to be sold

A reader shot us an email the other day, wondering what's going on at 1218 N 30th St., a corner property which recently had its facade removed. Because it's what we do, we made our way to Brewerytown over the weekend to check it out.

As you can see from the

Back at the end of 2011, we first told you about plans for a new cafe across the street from the then-not-yet-started Bottom Dollar in Brewerytown. A year later, we checked back in on the space and discovered a totally redone exterior, and some degree of interior progress toward this new

Last week, we checked in on several ongoing new construction projects in the Brewerytown neighborhood. Some of these houses were replacing vacant land, while in other cases blighted homes were demolished to make room for the new construction. In either case, these projects represent important progress for an area that

On the recommendation of a reader, we made our way to Brewerytown the other day to check in on some ongoing residential projects that we've covered in the past few months. First we stopped at 31st & Baltz, where last month two foundations sat, waiting for new houses to be

A thread popped up on Philadelphia Speaks the other day, sharing the news that Murray's Steaks and Other Fine Foods, located at 26th & Girard, had closed its doors. Based on the commentary from several posters who seem to live in the neighborhood, Murray's wasn't exactly serving up particularly high quality

Forty years ago, the Philadelphia Water Department discontinued use of a reservoir next to the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. The 37-acre man-made lake located around 33rd and Oxford Streets, is now a nesting place for migratory birds traveling along the eastern seaboard.

The National Audubon Society and Outward Bound (OB) have introduced plans to transform the lake

About ten months ago, two zoning notices appeared at 1237-39 N 31st St., announcing plans for two single family homes. These homes were to be built by Steph-Sin Development, the folks that constructed the home immediately next door last year.

Over the past ten months, much has happened in this area. Notably, a

We were in the area the other day, and spotted three fenced-in lots on the 3000 block of West Girard, just around the corner from the still-newish Bottom Dollar market. Doing a little bit of research, we discovered that all of the properties are being developed by ML Builders LLC.