In Chinatown

Almost five years ago, we had a story about the northwest corner of 12th & Vine, sharing some upcoming plans. The corner was, at the time, a surface parking lot, having been used as such for decades. Next door at 1209 Vine St. was the Jarvis Building, a handsome edifice that

932 Arch St. has certainly experienced a strange decade. We first covered this property back in 2012, sharing the news that the one-story building would be growing by five stories, with the newly renovated building containing 20 apartments and some office space. It didn't take long before construction got started,

You love Trader Joe's but you hate waiting on line. This is a quandary for many Philadelphians, since long lines are almost as synonymous with this supermarket chain as happy employees and Trader Giotto's tomato sauce. With just one location in town at 22nd & Market, a trip to Trader Joe's sometimes

We've checked in on the huge property at 814 Spring Garden St. a couple times over the years, each time predicting redevelopment for this building, which was a Fedex terminal for a long time. Back in 2012, we told you about a plan to build a three story addition to

If you've been near 10th & Vine of late, you've surely noticed the major project under construction on the northwest corner. We first covered this project, the Eastern Tower Community Center, waaaaaay back in the summer of 2011, but it wasn't until the end of last year that the project

As we were writing about the upcoming project at 10th & Spring Garden yesterday, we visited the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation website to see whether the organization had posted any info about how the community responded to the project. We came up empty on that front, unfortunately. But we did

Maybe six weeks ago, we told you that developers had purchased a surface parking lot and a building on the southwest corner of 10th & Spring Garden, and were planning to build an eight-story mixed-use building. This was exciting to us in a few different ways. First, we're always pleased

A reader reached out to us the other day, wondering about some ongoing construction near the corner of 10th & Arch. We seemed to remember writing about something in this neck of the woods previously, and wouldn't you know it, we have! A couple times, as a matter of fact.

The Liberty Title & Trust Building at 101 N. Broad St. was built in 1929, rather unfortunate timing for a bank building. Over the years, it was home to a number of different tenants, with the Water Department being the most recent occupant. That was back in the 1990s though, and the

The Art Moderne-style building at 230 N. 13th St. is easy to miss, sitting on the edge of Chinatown and mere steps from the Vine Street Expressway. But the building has some amazing history to it, above and beyond its architecture, which landed it on the Historic Register back in 2008. The building has