In Passyunk Square

We've mentioned a few times over the years that we lived near Pat's and Geno's back in the day, and we confess that sometimes we miss our old neighborhood. It's not the occasional smell of steak and onions that wafted to our front door that we remember fondly, but instead

Gold Star Park is a gem of a little neighborhood park, with a nice run of grass, some older trees throwing off shade (in a good way) all summer, and a playground to keep the kiddies happy. But if you don't live on or around the 700 block of Wharton

Yeesh, another project for Washington Avenue? Yup, here comes a third consecutive post about this major artery whose development has been mostly arrested since the factories and coal yards moved away. A reader apparently saw our story yesterday about plans for a new mixed-use building at the corner of 12th

About a year and a half ago, we told you that 1200 Washington Ave. was available for sale for $1.2M and encouraged anyone and everyone to step forward and buy it. This property, which sits next door to our car wash of choice and around the corner from Nam Phuong, has

1352-56 E. Passyunk Ave. seems like a winning location but it's been vacant for about a year and a half, if memory serves. A Rita's franchise occupied this space for roughly half a dozen years, and we vaguely remember when Nifty Fifty's had a nice run here. And we recall

We've been waiting for South Broad Street to take a big step forward for years, but to date, progress has been fairly incremental. Sure, there have been changes, like the reopening of the Broad Street Diner, the reawakening of long-shuttered Boot & Saddle, and the slow-moving construction of the armory apartments.

We love a good development opportunity. And whenever a sign asserts such a thing, we feel it's our obligation to check it out and pass it along, unless of course it's so good that we take it ourselves. So, uh, don't let that be a spoiler alert for what follows.From

We don't usually rush to tell you about individual listings, and it hardly ever happens for properties that aren't listed by the company that owns this site. But when a colleague passed along the listing for 1010 Tasker St. the other day, we felt compelled to blast the listing far

When we visited the 600 block of Federal Street earlier this week to find out about what's happening at the former Federal Pretzel Baking Company building, we certainly didn't expect that we'd be coming back here so quickly. Alas, the story sparked the curiosity of one of our readers, who

Heraclitus got it right when he said that the only constant is change. In Center City, we see change all the time. Buildings rise and fall, businesses come and go, people are constantly hustling from one place to another. In some parts of South Philly, change generally comes more slowly,