In Grays Ferry

Slowly but surely, development momentum seems to be picking up in Grays Ferry, with action spreading west from 25th Street and south from Grays Ferry Avenue. Remember, we told you over the summer about a bunch of new homes under construction on the 3000 block of Titan Street, just behind the

Over the last several years, we've seen quite a bit of construction activity on the eastern edge of the Grays Ferry neighborhood, what we'd describe as development overflow from Point Breeze. As time goes by, we see occasional projects a little further west in the neighborhood, but nothing resembling the critical

St. Gabriel’s is a Catholic Church at the corner of 29th & Dickinson whose story echoes many houses of worship in Philadelphia. The attractive building dates back to the beginning of the 20th century, and in its heyday the church was surely packed to the gills for Sunday mass, let alone

2501 Wharton St. is a bit of an odd property. From the outside, it looks like a large industrial building. But upon closer examination, it's actually a series of warehouses, surrounding a parking lot in the middle. These buildings house a collection of small businesses, including a doggie day care, an

Walk down just about any block in Point Breeze north of Dickinson Street, and you'll surely see some kind of construction activity, or at the very least, a building that's gone up within the last couple years. As development in Point Breeze continues to hum along and competition for properties escalates,

At the northwest corner of 26th & Federal stands the Progressive Worship Center, a Baptist church that's been operating since at least the 1990s. Also since the mid-1990s, an individual named Julius Cooper owned the sizable lots immediately to the west of the church. He didn't exactly keep them in

Lanier Park is a massive patch of green space in the Grays Ferry neighborhood at 2900 Tasker St., taking up an entire city block on the edge of the Greater Grays Ferry Estates PHA development. The park is a wonderful resource for the neighborhood in theory, but like many public green spaces

The intersection of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue is incredibly well traveled, as it provides access to West Philly, Southwest Philly, Center City, and I-76E. For such a popular intersection though, it's pretty rough on the eyes. Aside from the Pennovation Works campus on the northwest corner, this immediate area is home

Once you get past Washington Ave., Grays Ferry Avenue serves a few purposes, like access to Southwest Philly, the location for the neighborhood supermarket, and the site of the "central" post office in 19146. Otherwise, it's nothing to write home about, with fast moving cars and various industrial businesses making the

We've had a couple of readers reach out to us in recent months, wondering about some new warehouses that have recently appeared on the 1300 block of Warfield Street. Of the top of your head you might not recognize this address, but you've probably been here many times before. This