In Passyunk Square

Action Builders and Remodelers have operated out of the warehouse at 1418-22 S. 7th St. for as long as we can remember, which is also roughly as far back as Google Street View can recall, about a dozen years. Property records indicate that they've been there far longer, since the mid-1980s.

We've been pondering the vacant lot at the northeast corner of 9th & Wharton for years. We lived around the corner for awhile in the mid-aughts, and wondered about it almost every time we walked past. We wrote about it back in 2012, explaining that the Slovak St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church

You may recall, a couple weeks back, we told you about plans to renovate the building at 1201 Wharton St., which would represent a new chapter for a structure that's had a number of uses over the years. As we told you previously, we believe the place was built as a storage

We've long admired the two-story building at 1201 Wharton St., having written a story about it way back in 2011. The building is nothing spectacular, though it does stand out from its largely residential surroundings for a few reasons. First, it's four times the size of most of the other

Gold Star Park is a wonderful neighborhood pocket park, one of many dotting South Philly. In case you've never heard of it, you can find it on the north side of the 600 block of Wharton St. between Sheridan and Marshall Streets. Historically, this 25K sqft parcel was occupied by the John Hay

The 900 block of Federal Street is a delightful Passyunk Square block, sitting just off the Italian Market, across from Capitolo Playground, and mere steps from Pat's and Geno's. This being Philadelphia though, of course there's a little bit of weirdness to consider. First, at the beginning of the block,

There are a handful of blocks in Philadelphia that have their own thing that makes them just a bit different from the rest. For many of those blocks, this is the case because of their location- things are just a little different if you live on a street that's across from a

The sizable property at 1100 Wharton St. has been used for municipal purposes for well over a hundred years. This surely made sense when the Moyamensing Prison was in operation across the street. But in the decades since then, as Passyunk Square has thrived as a residential and commercial community, it has

It's not entirely clear to us exactly how a small surface parking lot came to exist spanning the 700 blocks of Latona and Manton Street. Lookin at historic maps, we can see that there were homes here at one point, but the properties have been vacant since at least the 1940s.

The northeast corner of Broad & Alter has been sitting, underused for as long as we can remember. Over the last five years or so, the property has sat vacant and overgrown, surrounded by a construction fence. On the positive side of the ledger though, the property did feature a