In Pennsport

The DMV experience is generally terrible- a few Simpsons episodes featuring Patty and Selma have driven this point home. But our experiences at the PennDOT Driver License Center at 1530 S. Columbus Blvd. were generally tolerable, with relatively manageable wait times in a rather depressing setting. But that setting is

Several years ago, a fire ravaged 405 Greenwich St., and the remnants of the home remained for a couple of years. By 2012, thankfully, the blighted building was demolished. The lot has sat vacant, catty corner from Grindcore House, ever since.Looked like this for yearsCurrently a vacant lot with a

It was in the winter of 2011 that we first told you about a planned residential development at the southern end of Pennsport where Moore Street hits E. Moyamensing Avenue. On a long vacant lot, Design Builders Associates put up a sign advertising Moyamensing Estates, a fifteen home gated community. Prices for

Heading home after getting whooped again in kickball, it somehow seemed appropriate that we found ourselves on Mercy Street, a tiny block just north of Snyder Avenue. Heading down the narrow street's 400 block, we were not at all expecting to find three homes that had clearly been built very

The southwest corner of Front & Reed is decidedly inconspicuous today.  Standing at the edge of a quiet residential part of Southwark, it would hardly strike one as a once fertile complex of retail and industrial buildings.  But Front Street in Southwark was part of quite a different neighborhood before

This week, it seems like we're covering an unsual number of adaptive reuse projects. Seeing churches converted to apartments could be a slowly growing trend, but converting old apartments into new apartments is an age-old effort that's sure to continue interminably into the future. At 1227 S. 2nd St., new

When we last visited the southwest corner of 4th & Greenwich, we discovered a new hole in the ground just a half a block away from Dickinson Square Park and across the street from Grindcore House. At the time, we told you to expect three new homes on this site. Checking

East Moyamensing Avenue, though it's wider than many streets and travels diagonally through South Philly, is primarily a residential street. On many of its blocks, Moyamensing has other stuff going on, like schools, churches, green space, and restaurants, but homes vastly outnumber everything else. Which is why it's a little

In March, we checked in on a new home at the corner of 5th & Dickinson, which was replacing a vacant lot. It's currently on the market for just a tick under $400K, and offers a melange of different materials on its southern facade.Newer home on the cornerNow, the same

For over a hundred twenty years, Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church proudly stood on the northwest corner of 3rd & Reed. And a year ago, we visited the site as a crew demolished the gorgeous old building, which was coming down in favor of a new twelve-home development dubbed