In Logan Square

Dear God: we’re unsure if you’ve heard our prayers lately. We need some money. So we’re selling some of (Y)our things.

Like the Holy Family Center and the northern portion of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center’s parking lot, located at 17th and Vine Streets. Hope you don’t mind, Big Fella. (Signed, the Archdiocese of

Just a few blocks from a new coffee shop and around the corner from one of our preferred produce places sits a construction site that a couple of readers have recently asked us about. This has been a vacant lot for several years now, but looking back at a listing from

We were heading north on 18th Street the other day and noticed that the street now reduces to a single lane as you go north of Vine. The reason, site preparation has begun for the coming Mormon Temple, which will eventually replace two huge parking lots that overlook 676.

Note the

Recently, we broke the good news that the western end of Market Street in Center City was finally experiencing a much-needed cleanup, with two undesirable businesses finally shutting their doors. Today, we have more good news from the "long time coming on Market Street" department. You may recall, we've been

We've wondered about this one for awhile, and confess that we still don't have too many answers. But maybe you can help?

If you've been to the area in the past several years, perhaps to pick up groceries at Whole Foods, to attend classes at CCP, or to enjoy an over-the-top

Less than a week ago, we told you about the sudden end for the Forum Theater and Les Gals, two vestiges of a bygone era of when people actually used to leave their homes for their smut. At the time, we wondered whether these shutdowns near 22nd & Market were

Members of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) have reached a compromise with owners that will mean improvements to an empty but extremely nice looking home on the 2000 block of Race Street.

A small three- to four-employee family operated business will occupy the first-floor of a three-story row home located at 2030 Race.

Today, a reader reached out and gave us some of the more surprising news we've heard in recent months. The Forum, that old movie palace at 2208 Market St. that's somehow still been showing nudie films for the last however many years, that venue that attempted to expand its building

Last winter, we told you about plans for six townhomes on 22nd St., north of Race Street. Now, the parcel that stretches from 206-12 N. 22nd St., home of Patriot Parking, is under agreement of sale to a different owner. A new developer presented new plans for five instead of six town homes

When Fresh Fields first opened up shop at 20th & Callowhill back in 1997, the arrival of this 33,000 sqft store was a big deal. At the time, their concept was still somewhat foreign to Philadelphia, to wit, this quote from the Daily News shortly after the store opened: "if