In Brewerytown

As we mentioned a few months back, Brewerytown Living, the brainchild of the folks at MM Partners, is an online community that helps spread awareness about and build community in the Brewerytown neighborhood. Their next event, the Connie Mack Classic Wiffle Ball Tournament, will take place tomorrow at 1pm at

Last week, we mentioned the good work that MM Partners is doing the corner of Taney St. and Girard Ave., rehabbing a former hardware store with plans to turn it into the nicest restaurant in Brewerytown. While we were up there, we checked in on their biggest project at the

Mike Stollenwerk, who arrived on the local scene in 2007 when he took over Little Fish, has been moving at a frenetic pace recently, opening Fish and Fathom Seafood House in the past two years, and apparently opening a larger Fish in the near future. He has another project coming

A reader tipped us off about this building, located at the corner of Bailey and Jefferson Sts. The M.G. Schweiker building, originally built by the roofing company that called it home, is a 5200 sqft. building that sits on a double wide lot that is currently on the market for

According to Planphilly, a developer intends to build on the site pictured above, on the corner of Girard Ave. and Corinthian St., and has proposed tearing down the existing buildings to construct two new buildings with 42 residential units. These buildings are part of a historic district, but are not

Celebration Banquet Hall, located at 2709 Cecil B Moore Ave., has been closed for quite awhile but is apparently interested in reopening. The building, formerly a grocery store and before that a church, could definitely use some work, but the people at Celebration were not willing to go into any

They have Art + Soulfood every year, are currently working on North28 and are eating from their Marathon Farm. Brewerytown is continually pushing forward as a community, but many Philadelphians still have no idea what B-town is all about. The boys behind MM Partners recently launched BrewertytownLiving.com online community to

On June 11 between 5 and 8pm, Brewerytown will be having the third annual Art + SoulFood festival, an event that started in 2009. Put on by local artists and musicians in partnership with local restaurants and property owners, Art + SoulFood showcases local talent and brings attention to a particular section of

We just took a trip to the North28 site at 1238 N. 28th Street; construction is well underway. MM Partners tells us that boxes will be on site in early July and the model unit should be ready shortly thereafter. Even more interesting, though, was the 1881 stone that we

Councilman Darrell Clarke and state representative Michelle Brownlee had a great deal of support last week as they presented their updated project plans for the supermarket at 31st and Girard Avenue. Soloff Realty is buying the site from Westrum Development and building a Bottom Dollar, similar to the one they