In Old City

Old City has been a hub of activity for the restaurant supply business for the last century, but not so much anymore. Back in 2017, the neighborhood's two remaining restaurant suppliers - Economy and Swift - had put their buildings up for sale. The building on the southeast corner of

Greater Center City has boomed over the last number of years, but a handful of areas have felt like they've been left behind. The section of town that sits to the north of Old City and to the south of Northern Liberties is one such area, and to this day

The 100 block of Callowhill St. isn’t the most verdant block in town, and that's being generous. There are only three properties that have 100 Callowhill addresses, with the rest of the block dominated by a web of onramps and off-ramps linking I-95 and I-676, along with I-95 itself. But

Please ignore the title of this blog post and its location tag for a minute, if you don't mind. We're going to show you a photo of a building and we're going to ask you to guess the neighborhood where it's located. And just to be clear, we're talking about

Bread Street in Old City has been one of our favorite little streets for quite some time. This cobblestone-lined path is the rare one-block street in this town, running north-south between 2nd and 3rd Streets, starting at Arch Street and ending forever at Race Street. With Paddy’s Pub on the

Penn's Landing technically runs from Washington Avenue to Spring Garden Street, representing approximately two miles of Delaware waterfront through the heart of downtown Philadelphia. This is some of the most prime real estate in our fair city, and yet it has been beset by controversy, probably since well before you

Old City is one of the most prominent historic districts in Philadelphia- after all, it has 'old' in the name of the neighborhood! A swath of the neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, likely in anticipation of the Bicentennial. As we mentioned just the other day,

Not to beat a dead horse here, but we're none too fond of surface parking lots. We get it, people come into Philadelphia from out of town and street parking is not sufficient. And those cars have to go somewhere. Downtown though, parking garages are infinitely preferable to surface lots,

It appears there's another project on the horizon on the 200 block of Vine Street, and this one has a little bit of everything. The site in question covers 207-213 Vine St., which is now a surface parking lot, a contributing historic building at 209 Vine St., and a double-wide

300 N. Columbus Blvd. has, somehow, been sitting undeveloped for about a century. The property covers about an acre and a half and has been used as a surface parking lot for decades. Before that, it was used a rail yard for the Reading Railroad, dating back to the early