In Loft District

A reader tipped us off that the parking lot at 1314 Spring Garden St. closed down recently, as we confess, we were caught by surprise. You can see, this parking lot got plenty of use when it was operational, and it seems strange that the owners would shut it down.Alas,

The 900 block of Spring Garden Street is really odd. It's home to Roy Pitz Barrel House, Sazon, and W/N W/N, three quality restaurants, and also a gun range. The block is bisected by the tail end of the Reading viaduct, and the former Spring Garden Station sits vacant and blighted

The commercial corridor on Spring Garden Street, east of Broad, has made some major strides over the last several years, as the neighborhoods to the north and south have improved. The biggest changes have been Union Transfer, the music venue that took over the Spaghetti Warehouse space on the 1000 block

We've seen an increasing amount of development activity in the Callowhill neighborhood, but some prominent vacancy remains. One example is the Heid Building, at 325 N. 13th St., which has been sitting empty for over a decade. According to Hidden City, the eight-story building was originally built in 1927, after an

We couldn't tell you what purpose 334 N. 13th St. was originally built for, all we know is that this two story building has been home to a custom framing business for many years. At some point in its history, its windows were either eliminated or greatly reduced in size, but the

Do we ever love a good zombie project. When we use this term, we're referring to projects that we covered long ago that never happened, and then years later they suddenly move forward, and it's as if they rose from the dead. Zombie project. Get it?But let's not get distracted

The Callowhill neighborhood is loaded with potential, and it's definitely heading in the right direction, but there are still some areas that look pretty awful. The point where Ridge Avenue hits Callowhill Street is one such location, with some old warehouses, a tire store that tried to dress itself up

We brought you to the 1000 block of Wood Street a couple years ago to tell you about plans for several new apartment buildings, noting at the time that the block didn't seem like such an intuitive location for development. With a location mere steps from the Vine Street Expressway,

It has come to our attention the a row of vacant lots in the Callowhill neighborhood could soon get developed, pretty much around the corner from the office/creative space reuse project we told you about the other day. Developers purchased 430-444 N. 9th St. earlier this year, paying half a million

When we called your attention to 448 N. 10th St. a few years back, we assumed that somebody would eventually step forward to purchase the impressive structure, especially considering its proximity to the eventual Rail Park on the former Reading Viaduct. The other day, we passed by the building, which