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Going down 21st Street, it still feels weird not to see the Please Touch Museum building, as it was demolished last summer. As we told you previously, the building wasn't listed on the Historic Register and as a result US Construction was able to demolish it in favor of plans for eight mansions. The

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The East Building Looks Just About Finished From The Outside.

Just over a year ago, we were at Broad & Callowhill, looking both ways and checking out a project known as Hanover North Broad, which is a partnership between Philadelphia’s Parkway Corporation and The Hanover Company which is based in Houston. At that time, the dueling surface parking lots on the southeast and southwest corners were

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Newish Dunkin Donuts At The Corner, Renovation Two Doors Down

We were traveling down 21st Street the other day and some renovation work caught our eye on the 2100 block of Market Street. When we last visited this block, a former Papa Johns was under construction at the corner and we didn't know what was coming in its place. Sound

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We've never been to Chima, but we've heard good things from friends that are fond of the unlimited meat on a stick experience. Soon though, the Brazilian steakhouse could disappear from its longtime home at the Kennedy House, at the corner of 20th & JFK.ChimaLooking east on JFKA posting went

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It was almost five years ago that we told you about plans to renovate a blah building on the corner of 17th & Wood, plans that included a 3-story addition with office use on the 2nd and 3rd floors and apartments on the 4th and 5th floors. It would have

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We took advantage of the amazing weather on Saturday and visited the Christmas Village on a preview day, and you know we knocked down a waffle within minutes of our arrival. And somehow, we refrained from purchasing anything else. Next time perhaps we won't be so lucky. Afterward, trying to spend

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The Christmas Village is one of our favorite things about living in Philadelphia during the holiday season. For those that haven't heard of it slash weren't paying attention a few years ago during the Holiday Village silliness, the Christmas Village is an eating and shopping destination that starts every Thanksgiving

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Around this time last year, we reported on the upcoming demolition and development plans for a property at 1823 Callowhill St., across the street from the Granary Apartments. The plan at the time was to demolish a previously City-owned building which once housed the Children's Crisis Treatment Center. Originally built

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Originally known as “Rodin Square”, the Dalian on the Park development near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has been making major news lately, as the brand new Whole Foods Market, which takes up the majority of the building's retail space, recently opened up. Only partially because we were hungry for lunch,

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Back in 2013, 200 N 16th St., a large office building also known as One Franklin Plaza, hit the market as a vacant property. The hulking modernist structure sits next to the equally hulking modernist Sheraton Hotel, both of which were built in 1980 as part of the early stages

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