In Graduate Hospital

We're hearing whispers that this totally disgusting looking property, owned by Cynthia Edwards, will be available for purchase in the very near future. Let us rejoice that Graduate Hospital will soon contain one fewer abandoned corner property! That neighborhood sure is gentrifying!

Sharing an intersection with Xing Wang, May's Cafe, and

In today's Daily News, Julie Shaw reports that housing prices have gone up in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood and that a neighborhood that was mostly black ten years ago is now mostly white. Shaw does helpfully point to concrete numbers to support her case, presenting income numbers and population numbers

Jeffrey Tubbs of JDT International and Rich Astrella of Star Real Estate, the folks who brought you the Flats @ Girard Pointe, are getting started on a new project in Graduate Hospital. Once built, the Flatz@2015 Fitzwater St. will contain two bi-level units with eco-friendly details and high-end design standards. With

The Streets Department is currently repaving select streets in Graduate Hospital and Point Breeze. We found the "No Parking" sign below on the 2000 block of Catharine St. Stapled. To. A. Tree. Bravo, Streets Department. Bravo.

If you've driven or biked over the South Street bridge in the past week or so, you've probably noticed a demolition project going on at the base of the bridge, on Schuylkill Ave. Here are some recent photos, with accompanying shots of what was demolished.

The demolition is in anticipation

Back in the day, meaning 1914, the freight station at S. Broad St. and Washington Ave. was actually a good-looking building. From this view, it appears as though station was modeled after Greek architecture with its triangle rooftop and inset pillars, which are decoratively molded into the building’s exterior. Now

We stopped by the three-story homes at 1929-37 Fitzwater Street and 723 S. 20th Street that we reported the details on back in May, and got an update on the progress. Our source at the site tells us they are two weeks away (ha!) from completion. The $679K - $779K

In eight weeks John Garbarino hopes to finish work on 1910 South Street. His plans for the building includes four apartments with "all the upgrades," two of which will be bi-level units. All apartments are two bedrooms and one bath, and he hopes to get $2K a month for each,

The four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom home at 752 S. Dorrance Street sold in February for $777,500 (it was listed for $869K at one point). The 25-foot-wide townhouse has more than 3000-square-feet of living space, a custom kitchen with Viking Appliances, stone-and-porcelain baths, high ceilings, a fully finished basement, two-car garage and a large roof deck.

Early last week Foobooz asked us what this apparatus was on the corner of Carpenter and 23rd Streets. We foxes are classically trained in spy work, so it was no problem to make our way to the roof for this photo (please don't ask how) and question the right neighbors. Turns out