In Fishtown

2157 E. Norris St. has us rather puzzled, at least in its current state. The property is huge, clocking in at over 22K sqft, and it's marvelously located, mere steps from Frankford Avenue. There's an old industrial building that covers roughly a quarter of the lot which we're fairly certain

Frankford Avenue possesses an embarrassment of riches when it comes to culinary options, running the gamut of cuisines and price points. This is quite the change from, say, a decade ago, when the corridor was rather depressed and featured an embarrassing quantity of vacant lots and crumbling warehouses. The image

All too often these days, churches are finding it impossible or impractical to continue to operate out of buildings they've enjoyed for decades. The reasons for this phenomenon are myriad, including contracting congregations, congregants that have moved away and have to travel to attend services, parking challenges, and building maintenance issues,

If you're old enough, you remember when smoking on airplanes was a thing. Considering that through the lens of 2017, it seems crazy. Non-smokers were trapped in a smoky cabin for the length of every flight. People has lighters and matches on planes! Sheer madness. Then again, we've learned countless health and

We would posit that Frankford Avenue is one of the great success stories of the current real estate cycle. If we turn back the clock even a decade, this corridor was nothing to write home about, a mix of corner bars, industrial buildings, vacant lots, and a smattering of local

When the factories in the River Wards made Philadelphia the Workshop of the World, Trenton Avenue had a train track running down the middle of the street to better allow for the inflow of raw goods and the outflow of completed products. Most of those factories have now gone dark, and

If we may generalize, many people find comfort in familiar brands. It's reassuring to get the same Starbucks iced coffee in Philadelphia and Los Angeles (you know, if Starbucks is your thing). If you still do your banking in person, it's convenient that you can walk into a Wells Fargo or a PNC Bank

If you were a longtime regular, everybody knew your name at Yesterday's Tavern at the corner of Huntingdon & Gaul in Olde Richmond. Yesterday's was a no frills neighborhood corner spot and one of a slowly dying breed of smoking bars in town, but for many in the area, it was

We don't know whether it's true, but it sure feels like people are eating healthier these days. Farmer's markets have proliferated all over the city and it seems that every coffee shop in town offers a CSA pickup. Whole Foods opened a huge new location at the end of last year,

Another day, another significant project on Front Street. A reader tipped us off last week that construction was getting started at 1229-31 N. Front St., a property which has been sitting empty for about a decade. Sometime around 2007 or 2008, a pair of blighted buildings were torn down at this