In Manayunk

Right before Labor Day, we directed your attention to 4889 Umbria St., a well located Roxborough property that covers almost four acres but doesn't come close to capturing its highest and best use. Historically, this property was used for industrial purposes by a variety of plush and textile concerns. These

If you live in Manayunk or Roxborough and you're throwing a rager, Javies Beverage at 4889 Umbria St. might be your go-to beer distributor. If you're looking for a fun idea for your kid's 7th birthday party, Majesty Elite Gymnastics, located at the same address, offers two hour party packages

90 Rochelle Ave. is home to a small business called Little White Dog Doggie Daycare and sits steps away from the Wissahickon Regional Rail station. If you're not a pet owner, you could walk or drive past this unassuming address every day and never think twice about it. Little you'd

Housing development may have slowed across Philadelphia of late, but that's not really the case in Manayunk, where good sized residential and mixed-use projects along the Main Street corridor continue securing approvals to redevelop former industrial sites near the Schuylkill River. But sometimes the approval process takes quite some time and

We've covered a few big projects along Manayunk's Main Street recently, but last week at a meeting of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council we learned of another upcoming change for this commercial corridor. Vira Hookah Lounge at 4219 Main St. is permanently shutting down to make room for a new bar

Owners of former industrial sites in Manayunk building residential mixed-use projects was a story we covered frequently in 2024, and from the looks of it that trend will continue in the new year. At the very least, things are continuing to progress at 4045 Main St. since our visit last

Manayunk is a neighborhood where people want to live, with its rolling hills, active commercial corridor, and location between downtown and the 'burbs. The neighborhood was once home to a bunch of mills which are, needless to say, no longer in operation. We've seen several former mills get redeveloped over

Stop us if you've heard this story before: a developer wants to turn a former industrial site near the Manayunk waterfront into a mixed-use building.Longtime readers will note that we've been covering the gradual conversion of the land-use along the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal for years. Just a

Looking to avoid some traffic on I-76 the other day, we found ourselves in Manayunk, where some ongoing construction at 4050 Main St. caught our eye. The building at this address has been sitting vacant for the last few years, and was most recently home to a furniture store called

The Keystone Mill has stood at 201 Leverington Ave. since 1887, when the shoddy mill - which was not poorly built, but manufactured rough wool from old fabric and rags - was built for the Johnston family (Fun fact: the original home for the family's mill was at the SE