In East Kensington

We were in East Kensington over the weekend, trying to snap some photos of new development, but road work diverted us onto Kensington Avenue. This ended up working out nicely, as we stumbled upon some new construction at 2459 Kensington Ave. that we previously knew nothing about. This large property had been

Perhaps you've wondered why residential projects tend to look so similar to each other from year to year and neighborhood to neighborhood. Maybe you think it's laziness from the small pool of architects in town. Or perhaps you place it at the feet of the developers, who are just trying

We've been following incremental changes on the 2400 block of Coral St. between Hagert and Boston Streets in the last few years, as we've seen three new homes get built and some others get renovated. Just two properties remain vacant on this block, a City-owned property and a privately owned

We last visited the 2000 block of E. Letterly St. in the fall of 2015, telling you about several new townhomes that were in various stages of the construction process. Since that time, as you can probably guess, all of those homes are finished and sold, with prices ranging between

At least according to some random reviewer on Yelp, Luke's Bar at 2434 Cedar St. was the longest running bar under the same ownership in the neighborhood. A post on their Facebook page indicates that the bar closed its doors "until further notice" shortly after the new year. The 'For

We've increasingly found ourselves commenting on the spread of East Kensington development toward Lehigh Avenue over the last year or so, just as we've started traveling more frequently across Lehigh to report on projects in Port Richmond. With more and more projects getting closer and closer to Lehigh Avenue, it

We've been spending lots of time in East Kensington lately, and for good reason. There's a ton of construction happening in the area right now, and there's even more on the horizon. You may remember, we told you a couple weeks ago about new homes planned for the 2100 blocks

It was last summer that we brought 2045 Trenton Ave. to your attention, noting that the building, which once housed a chair manufacturer, was available for sale. To review, the building has roughly 10K sqft of interior space between a smaller structure on Trenton Avenue and a larger structure set back

Once upon a time, Philadelphia was known as the "workshop of the world," with countless factories employing a large segment of the population and pumping out raw and finished goods. Fast forward to the present, and "eds and meds" has become the largest segment of the local economy, and we

We've seen development spread from Fishtown through East Kensington in recent years, with the construction generally spreading northward from Amber to Coral, to Emerald, to Jasper Street. Amber Street has been largely redeveloped at this point, but Jasper Street still has a long way to go. And this makes sense,