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If you're traveling through Grays Ferry, you might come upon a wonderful old building at the corner of 28th & Morris. That's the former Anthony Wayne School, which several years ago was converted into affordable rental units. The building still strikes an imposing figure, with its exterior architectural features thankfully

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About a year ago, we gave you the lowdown on Penn’s 23-acre South Bank campus, located on the former DuPont site between 34th St. & Grays Ferry Ave., and plans for its future. We detailed how technology and startup companies would be drawn to this site, which will eventually contain a combination of renovated and

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Last spring, we first told you of plans for a new Bottom Dollar Foods at 31st & Grays Ferry, across the street from the Grays Ferry Pathmark. In November, groundbreaking had taken place, and most of the exterior of the building was already finished. Passing by today, we saw a

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Right around Memorial Day, we first broke the news that a new Bottom Dollar Foods would be built on a long-vacant lot at 31st & Grays Ferry, across from the Pathmark Shopping Center. We check back in on this site today, the day before Veterans' Day, and discover that the

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Perhaps in your travels around town, you've stumbled upon a handsome but weary looking building on the northwest corner of 26th & Wharton. Wharton Hall, as the building was originally called when it was constructed in the late 1800s, has an interesting history and a potentially exciting future.

According to Hidden

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We admit it- we're fans of the Grays Ferry Pathmark. It's large for a city supermarket, has a decent selection of products, offers some pretty good sales, is relatively clean, and the people who work there are generally friendly and pleasant.

For residents of Graduate Hospital, Point Breeze, and Grays

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Penn’s 23-acre South Bank campus is located on the former DuPont site between 34th St. & Grays Ferry Ave., and the Grays Ferry Crescent section of the Schuylkill River Trail park just south of the Schuylkill River where the river makes a turn before the Grays Ferry Bridge and continues

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Now that Franklin Paine’s skate park is under construction and is poised to open by this summer, plans for additional skate parks have surfaced. Today, we have some info on the Grays Ferry Crescent Skate Park project, which will create a roughly 3,500 sqft skate park along the Grays Ferry Crescent. You may

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We've mentioned the Forgotten Bottom neighborhood a couple of times in the past, but it's not an area that often shows up on anybody's radar. The little neighborhood, tucked between Grays Ferry Ave., I-76, and the Schuylkill River, is tricky to find and easy to miss. Along with a few

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A reader tipped us off to some orange zoning notices on a rather large, one story warehouse building at 2501 Wharton St.

The building pictured above is part of a fairly large complex that takes up 3/4 of the block and includes an auto body shop, an engineering company, and some

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