In Logan Square

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The 1400 block of Callowhill is about to level up, just a few years after undergoing an initial and significant change. For decades, this block was dramatically underdeveloped, home to a mere three buildings and an ocean of surface parking. In 2016, Parkway Corporation and the Hanover Company partnered to build a pair of

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The fiasco around the closure of Hahnemann Hospital will take years to unwind. As we and others have detailed before, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital and Paladin Healthcare partnered to purchase the hospital from Tenet in 2018 and they didn't even make it two years before closing the hospital down. When

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305 N. 15th St. is both blessed and cursed in terms of its location. On the positive side of the ledger, it's extremely close to downtown Philadelphia, with Love Park and City Hall a mere three blocks away. It's steps off of North Broad Street, which means that it's not

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If you've walked through the western section of the Logan Square neighborhood or if you've driven on I-76 through Center City of late, you've surely noticed the Riverwalk project progressing at 23rd & Cherry. This development is being constructed by PMC Property Group and includes a pair of apartment buildings on a site

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A small corner of Logan Square is currently experiencing a massive transformation, and it's all thanks to the folks at PMC Property Group doubling and tripling down on their holdings in this part of the city. As you may recall, this developer is currently building the Riverwalk project, which consists of two towers

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PMC Property Group currently has two residential towers under construction in the Logan Square neighborhood which will combine for 711 units and will also bring a new grocery store to the area. These towers are together known as the Riverwalk project, and when we visited the project a few weeks ago, the southern

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In 1949, an orphanage appeared at 1823 Callowhill St., in a building designed by Elizabeth Fleisher. Fleisher is the first known woman architect in Philadelphia and also was involved with the design of the Parkway House, incidentally. The building later was home to the Children's Crisis Treatment Center, which moved several years ago to

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The Logan Square neighborhood has been a desirable part of town for decades, meaning most of the buildable lots were developed long ago. As a result, it's news any time there's a project of any size in this neighborhood, as they don't come around very often. Of course, the bigger the

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Logan Square is one of the most attractive neighborhoods in greater Center City for a host of reasons. It's easily walkable to Center City. The Ben Franklin Parkway is no Champs-Élysées, but it's still one of the most scenic routes in town and an epicenter for citywide events. And if

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Anyone that's spent time in the Logan Square neighborhood is surely familiar with the Cresswell Iron Works building, even if they didn't know anything about its history. Between 1885 and 1969, Cresswell operated out of a low rise building at 113 N. 23rd St., producing a variety of iron products, like columns, lintels, brackets,

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