In Brewerytown

Less than five months after breaking ground, the new Brewerytown Supermarket at 31st & Girard opened its doors last week. Years in the making, this new Bottom Dollar location will provide locals with easier access to groceries than they've had in decades, and at reasonable prices, to boot. And since

It seems L&I has been busy lately in Francisville. We’ve seen hot pink L&I notices posted on several vacant beat-up properties in the past few weeks, but none more than in this up and coming neighborhood.

This time we spotted one on the front door of 1818 W. Girard Avenue. Posted October 10th, it demands that

A reader checked in recently, wondering about 2619-21 Poplar St., an apparently vacant building with a cool-looking sign. Located just half a block from the excellent North Star Bar, this location was clearly once home to a bar itself, with a similar double-wide footprint. We don't believe, however, that this business

To art or not to art? Such is the question Septa officials often face. Is it worth it to allocate resources for murals and more at its stations despite its precarious budget situation?

Yes, is the answer, or so say the folk at Septa, and we agree. For example, this call for artists from last month

Last week, representatives from Brewery Park Associates went before the ZBA with a proposal to finish a project that began a few years ago. 3000 Master St. takes up an entire city block, and the eastern half of the former warehouse pictured below is currently used as residential loft apartments,

On the southern edge of Brewerytown, a large parcel on the northwest corner of 26th & Poplar sits vacant and blighted. Overgrown and surrounded by an unsightly green fence, it's caught our eye for years. We're thinking that the time has come for something positive to happen at this otherwise

Around town numerous old churches are for sale. These sites often represent a portal of local controversy, or at least a talking point for preservationists and those interested in seeing the buildings razed and the modern era built in its place.

And here’s another one, this time at 27th & Girard in

If you’ve been tracing the line of development north of Brewerytown, you might have stumbled across 25 new town homes, interspersed among existing housing stock on 31st Street, between Berks and Diamond Streets. The Strawberry Mansion Town Homes, as per their namesake, reside in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, near the eastern edge of

MM Partners, probably the most active developer in the Brewerytown neighborhood, are at it again. We've covered numerous projects from these guys over the past several months, including North28, and the ongoing renovation of the MG Schweiker Building. This time, they've turned their attention back to Brewerytown's commercial corridor, cleaning

In style, black will always be black. But around town, green is the new black at ten city schools and rec centers where blacktop will be transformed into new green space as part of a multi-city-agency collaborative initiative announced this month. It means a creative approach to creating needed accessible