In East Kensington

There's another small project coming to East Kensington, but we're not exactly sure what it'll look like. Today we spied a zoning notice at 2023 E. Letterly St., a vacant lot on a block that sits between Coral and Emerald Streets. Homes only line one side of the block, with

For quite a number of years, Woods Brothers Building Materials occupied a giant property at 2621 Frankford Ave., just a little below Lehigh Avenue. And we're not exaggerating when we say it's a giant property, it measures over 87,000 sqft. But very little of the property was covered by buildings,

When we last visited the 2000 block of E. Fletcher St. back in 2012, we were telling you about plans for a new six-unit building which has, in the elapsed time, been built and is now occupied. We also brought a vacant building to your attention next door at 2028

As the residential landscape of East Kensington changes, so too will the commercial landscape. Already, we're seeing new businesses open on Frankford Avenue in the neighborhood, like a comic shop and a tattoo place that have appeared in recent months on the 2500 block. On Front Street we're seeing positive

Recently, on a jaunt to East Kensington, we spotted three new homes under construction on the 1900 block of E. Arizona Street. There's a rough-looking one-story building at the end of this block, where it hits Emerald Street, with a homemade street sign that declares this Beer Belly Boulevard. Sounds

Shortly after we posted our story about 2011 Amber St. yesterday, the good people from KJO Architecture reached out to give us some more information about the project. A refresher, the property currently looks like this:Current viewA project has been in the works for this property for quite some time,

Developers have gone back to the drawing board and now they're giving it another shot at 2011 Amber St. in East Kensington. A few months back, we told you about a two-pronged plan for this property to 1) convert a structure that looks like it was once an auto garage into

The 2500 block of Kern Street is seeing some changes and there are more on the way. Actually, we're being a little more specific than is needed, since it seems that the 2500 block makes up the entirety of Kern Street. So let's start again.Have you heard of Kern Street?

Development has claimed another victim in East Kensington, and this time it's a vacant lot on the 2400 block of Coral Street. This isn't our first visit to this block- when we last visited about a year and a half ago, we spied three homes under construction from BMK Homes

A couple months back, we brought construction activity at 2568 Frankford Ave. to your attention, happily noting that another long-vacant Frankford Avenue lot was turning over. In case you forgot, this building will include ground-floor retail space and two apartment units. When we were here last, it was a hole