In Francisville

Over the summer, while running through a collection of development updates in Francisville, we briefly turned our attention to a long-vacant lot on the southeast corner of 16th & Ogden which was finally seeing progress with the construction of a single triplex after a much larger development had apparently stalled

Last year, developers demolished a one-story home on 19th Street in Francisville and replaced it with a three story duplex. The project caused a stir in the neighborhood in a way that you might not expect unless you visited the block in question. See, this entire block was razed and

Yesterday, officials cut the ribbon on the newly renovated Francisville Playground at Wylie & Cameron. This regularly-used play space for neighborhood kids had been in need of a little love for quite some time, and $250K later it's been improved considerably.

According to a press release, the renovations included new play

About six weeks ago, when we last visited the 1600 block of Ogden Street, Citi Properties LLC was in the process of building two duplexes here. In case you can't picture it, this block is all vacant lots on the south side of the street, and has plenty of vacancy

Back in April of 2012, we passed along the news that a new dining establishment would be coming to 689-95 N Broad St., a former auto tag place. At that time, we had no idea what kind of business was seeking a variance for a take-out restaurant with outdoor seating,

When we last took a peek at the new building on the northeast corner of 19th & Fairmount, the first three stories had just been framed out. Three plus months later, the building is fully framed to all four stories, the windows are in, and the bricks have nearly finished

Just east of Broad Street, we were surprised and also not surprised to find new construction in the form of a two-story addition being built onto an existing one-story building on the northeast corner of Poplar & Watts.

The addition at 1335-37 Poplar St. will create two apartments above an existing

When we last checked in on the 700 block of N. 20th Street in Francisville, developers were demolishing a blighted and vacant property, formerly of the PHA, and accidentally damaged the roof of the liquor store on Fairmount Avenue. Since then, the developers have finished the demolition job and built

We've produced a veritable deluge of words about the intersection of 19th & Poplar, clogging your minds with information about four large projects that surround the intersection. It should come as absolutely no surprise then, that more development is coming to the area, just a little farther north. Easy to

It's probable you've never heard of Swain Street. For the uninitiated, Swain is an east-west street that runs between Brown Street and Fairmount Avenue. It starts in Francisville at 15th Street and disappears at 17th Street, only to resume for a couple of blocks in the Fairmount neighborhood. There are