In Pennsport

In January, we updated you on a story we initially broke last June, about a new Vietnamese restaurant coming to Front & Titan Sts. in Pennsport. At the time, we pointed out some demolition activity ongoing next door at 1114 S Front St., the former home of Sculli Bros. Inc.
Over the
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A reader tipped us off about some new construction on the 100 block of Pierce St., and we discovered two other noteworthy subjects when we trekked down there.
There's a zoning application at 150 Pierce St. that indicates plans for a new single family home that's replacing a two story building that
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A reader tipped us off about two construction sites in very different phases, near the corner of 2nd and Ellsworth Sts. in Pennsport.
At 1107 S. 2nd St., a long vacant house that's been on and off the market for a few years finally sold for $200K back in November. The
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On the corner of Front and Sigel Sts., next to I-95 and around the corner from Target, we spotted a new home that's currently under construction.
The developer, Churchill Investments LLC, purchased the 17'x45' lot almost a year ago for $45K. Previously, the lot had approvals for a 2000+ sqft, 3
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Waaay back in June, we told you about a stalled construction project at 1120 S. Front St., a building owned by the same people who own Pho and Café Viet Huong restaurant. Let's look back together:
From the looks of it, construction has picked back up, and it's moving fairly quickly.
And
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For decades, an area of land just off the northwest corner of 4th & Manton Streets sat vacant - overgrown with weeds, littered with trash, and a hotspot for other illegal and unwanted activities in this quaint area of Pennsport.
Finally, this past summer, a group of neighbors banded together to
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After a brief jaunt down to Pennsport to check out the future site of Moyamensing Estates, we passed by Dickinson Square Park and saw that the long-planned park renovation had finally begun. The chain link fence has been erected around the perimeter of the park and some heavy duty construction
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The corner of E. Moyamensing Ave. and Moore Sts. probably brings mummers to mind before large-scale development projects, but that's just what's on the way at this long vacant corner. A reader brought the newly installed sign for Moyamensing Estates to our attention earlier this week.
We've learned that Design Builders Associates
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Over the summer, we reported on a new building at the corner of 6th St. & Washington Ave., a place that now contains Washington Avenue Dental Center on the first floor. At the time, we noticed a double-wide shell just to the south, at 1107 S. 6th St.
About a year
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For years, a former Peco substation on the southeast corner of 6th and Federal Sts. has sat empty, a lovely husk of a building, no longer needed for its original use.
Peco sold the rather large property to June Ngheim back in 1998 for $82K. In 2008, Ngheim went to the
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