In East Passyunk

Just last week, before the Eagles were SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS, we visited the 600 and 700 blocks of Dudley Street and told you about all the new homes on those blocks. Just a bit to the south of Dudley Street is Emily Street, where we see a similar phenomenon playing out.

A shuttered school is pretty much always bad news for the community that lives near said school, for reasons that are rather self evident. Unfortunately, we saw this story play out in numerous neighborhoods across Philadelphia, as the School District closed a couple dozen schools back in 2013. Most of the former school

As House Stark says from time to time, "winter is coming." And while the thermometer might suggest otherwise this week, snow is probably on the horizon for Philadelphia. When we think of snow and think of urban planning at the same time (hey, it happens), sneckdowns often come to mind. For

For whatever reason, the 2100 block of S. Juniper St. has always been mostly industrial and commercial, despite its location next to a residential neighborhood and adjacent to the Passyunk Avenue commercial corridor. The combination of the conditions on the ground and the proximity to the commercial corridor make this

We got an email the other day from CBRE, advertising a property for sale or lease near Passyunk Avenue. This property, 1324 Mifflin St., has a very unusual shape, but you wouldn't necessarily never expect this by looking at it from the street.So yeah, that's... different. There's a three story building

People like to say that a little coffee shop can be a good indication that a neighborhood has achieved "up and coming" status. If that's the case, then what does it mean when a neighborhood or a corridor has a bunch of little coffee shops, one after the other? Such is the

The neighborhood around 600 Moore St. is pretty standard South Philly, a bunch of row homes with some first floor storefronts mixed in, and the occasional large commercial or institutional building. For some reason though, the city block that's bounded by 6th Street, 7th Street, Moore Street, and McClellan Street has

It's been a checkered recent history for 1934 E. Passyunk Ave., but we're optimistic that things are about to turn a corner for this property. For many years, this building was home to a bar/restaurant called Colombo's. In its later years though, Colombo's was hardly in operation, and several signs on

At the northeast corner of 7th & Morris, developers built a trio of new homes over the last year, replacing a surface parking lot. We told you about the project when construction was just getting started, and if you visit the intersection today you'll notice that the homes are finished. One odd architectural

It was a little over a year ago that we told you that developers had purchased the long vacant lot at 617-21 Moore St. and redevelopment was on the horizon. We shared the details of the project, that it would include four homes on Moore Street with two of those homes interrupted