In Graduate Hospital

Almost exactly a year ago, we first told you about plans for NextFab Studio, “a membership-based, high-tech workshop and prototyping center,” to move from West Philly to an old warehouse at 2025 Washington Ave.

In case you don't recall and don't feel like going back and reading our well-written and informative original

A reader gave us the heads up about some weird structure going up next to the South Street Bridge, on the northern edge of the site that will eventually contain a huge CHOP facility. What the heck is going on here?

We went up to the two gentlemen working on the

Almost exactly four years ago, Johnny Columbo and Michael Lewis opened Philly Cupcake in an itty storefront on the corner of 12th & Chestnut. A year and a half ago, the duo opened Philly Chocolate at Juniper & Walnut, in the space that formerly contained Naked Chocolate Cafe. And about

Last March, we wondered about the status of 2200 Saint Albans Street, home to a check cashing store and long a nuisance property in the neighborhood. The property was on the market for a hot minute, and was promptly sold, but not before it experienced a break-in and the theft

Months ago, we told you about space for rent at 2101 Christian St., a very small storefront in a very handsome building that has been meticulously rehabbed over the past year. Originally, the owners of the property had intended to open a sandwich shop in the space, but other opportunities

A neighbor gave us the heads up the other day about the ongoing demolition of 728 S. 18th St., a rather attractive two-story brownstone near the Marian Anderson Baseball Field. This home was sold in a private transaction in September for $202K to a Atlantic Devs LLC.

The property, which we're

No doubt, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood has experienced some serious changes over the past decade plus. A useful, though slightly dated report from the Fels Institute effectively quantifies these changes in shocking terms. Back in 1998, the neighborhood contained 553 vacant houses. By 2008, there were a mere 49 vacant houses

In the past couple of years, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood has seen a new wave of high-end development projects consisting of several town homes being built all at once, with prices exceeding $600K per house. Some, but not all of these developers, have used land formerly occupied by churches to

Passing by the formwork on the 1400 block of Bainbridge Street, you may get the impression that the Artisan Homes are simply continuing their inexorable trek toward Broad Street, with only a check cashing place at the corner to thwart their progress. But you would be mistaken indeed.

1413 and 1417

1507 and 1515 Catharine Street have been blighted and vacant for years, according to our memory. They were acquired by Universal Companies back in 2004 along with numerous other properties in the neighborhood, and sat undeveloped and rotting for years under Universal's stewardship. Though Universal pulled permits for alterations to