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A reader tipped us off about a newly poured foundation at 1732 Kater St., just a block away from South Street West's Pharmacy Row. This address has been long-vacant, likely due to the fact that the lot has a totally strange shape that makes row home building conventions pretty much

Washington Ave. bums us out.

A hundred years ago, it was a major thoroughfare for goods into and out of Philadelphia, with train tracks running down the middle and a train station at Broad and Washington. Coal yards, metal manufacturers, furniture manufacturers, breweries and publishers, among many other industries, called Washington

A reader emailed us last week about a new construction site at 2411 Christian St., across from the former W.S. Peirce School, vacant since 2007. While Christian St. in this neighborhood has numerous houses under construction at the moment, we haven't seen nearly as much redevelopment or new construction on

Earlier this week, we profiled an eleven-home development coming to the 2500 block of Montrose St., developed by Metro Impact. That project was presented for a second time to the SOSNA Zoning Committee a couple of weeks ago, and the re-imagined project has a look that we don't see enough of in

If you live in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood, you've definitely seen signs for Metro Impact, a development company that's built dozens of homes in the area. Run by Steve Shklovsky, Metro's building practices have evolved and improved over time, with larger and more interesting projects coming along as they've grown. Their latest

Months ago, we reported that a pharmacy was opening up in the attractive building on the southeast corner of 18th and South Sts. that formerly housed offices for the Philadelphia Police. Now, we here at Naked Philly are gung ho for small business, stoked that South Street West is filling

La Va Cafe, at 2100 South St., opened almost six years ago in a space that previously held nuisance bar South Street Blues. Over the years, it's become a go-to place in the neighborhood for the stay-at-home lunch crowd, the grad-school studying set, and transplanted Israelis looking for tasty shakshuka

Over the summer, we told you about 1900 Christian St., a vacant corner property uglying up the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Still no word on when it's going on the market, but today we're looking at it as a worthwhile test study of the Doors and Windows program from L&I.

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Commenter G-ho Res gave us the heads up about an impressive mural that's been revealed with the complete demolition of the 3rd story of 1801 Christian St., a subject we wrote about yesterday.

As we mentioned yesterday, the building's owner allowed BetterBlocks Philly to use the vacant space back in October.

The same developer currently building six homes on a terrible block in Point Breeze is getting started on a new project in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. Roman Mosheyev started demolition work last week at 1801 Christian St., and the place looks like it will be gone within a matter of days.

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