In Graduate Hospital

Over the summer, we told you about a plan to construct five new homes on the 1900 block of League Street, the last street in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood before you hit Washington Avenue. At the neighborhood meeting when those homes were first proposed, the SOSNA Zoning Committee as well

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At one point in the last few decades, for what could have only been a very brief time, it became acceptable to cover an older row home's brick facade with vinyl siding. Whether these homeowners were simply seeking an inexpensive solution to a porous front wall or whether they were

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Back in June, we told you about a plan from developer Roman Mosheyev to tear down a warehouse building at 20th & Kimball and replace it with a four story condo building.

While neighbors had a series of valid concerns about the project, we were excited about the new development springing

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A year and a half ago, we first told you that the vacant YWCA building at 1607 Catharine St. was available for sale. Back in January, developers presented a plan to SOSNA to convert the building into 23 residential units with 15 parking spots, but the application was withdrawn. Yesterday,

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A reader checked in the other day, and gave us the heads up that construction activity was stirring at 1014-16 S. 19th St., two long-vacant lots near Washington Avenue. Since no zoning notices had been posted, the reader was assuming that the construction was by right, but was concerned about

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About a year ago, we told you that Sunny Point had opened at 1824 South St., replacing the venerable Pinky's. This change was more about ownership than anything else, as the new establishment was essentially the same as Pinky's, but with a few additions to and subtractions from the menu

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Back in April, we told you about the plans to build a CVS in the large parking lot on the corner of 22nd & South. The construction has been racing along for the past few months now, and the time has finally come! According to their media department, the new store will open on

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For the past ten months or so, we've passed by 609 S. 20th St., imagining what could have been. As you may recall, some brave neighbors stepped up to the plate back in January and purchased this property, saving the community from the atrocity that would have been the Bedford

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The 2500 block of Montrose St., located off of Grays Ferry Avenue and pretty much next door to the less-than-picturesque Veolia Plant, is a block that's experienced some development recently and is set for significant change in the coming years. Back in March, we told you about three condo units under

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Last spring, developers presented plans to the SOSNA Zoning Committee to partially demolish two homes on the 2100 block of Saint Albans Street which had previously been rental units. After a little back and forth, they received zoning approval and recently began construction at the site. Currently, 2109-11 Saint Albans

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