In Point Breeze

We confess, we'd never visited the 2200 block of Wilder Street before last week. What we found when we trekked over there was a mixed block with some well maintained two-story homes, a few blighted properties, and a ton of vacant land. Our visit was spurred by a reader, who

Last week's community meeting about plans for forty-six homes at 2012 Wharton Street went pretty much as you would have expected. Roughly sixty people showed up, a representative from JKRP Architects presented the project, people from the crowd asked questions about affordability, other people aggressively asked about why it can't

As the Point Breeze neighborhood went through a prolonged downturn, countless handsome buildings fell into disrepair. While many were eventually demolished, others survived but became disfigured over time thanks to suboptimal repair and renovation jobs. But times have changed and the last few years have meant a huge development surge

Let's try this again.A couple years back, we excitedly told you about plans for forty-eight new homes at 2012 Wharton St., immediately next door to a proposed twenty-two home project at the corner of 20th & Wharton. The latter project ran into some tough sledding at the ZBA, which inspired

Some big changes are taking place on the 2400 block of Manton Street. When we last visited here over the summer, a new home was under construction on the southwest corner of 24th & Manton and it boasted a list price of $500K. At the time, we also reminded you about a

We were so excited, over the summer, to share the news that a Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken franchise was planning to open on the southeast corner of 20th & Washington. The plans called for a restaurant with seating for 81 and a liquor license, and actually had the support of the community.

Living in a city with an older housing stock as we do, we often see interesting alterations to century-old facades. People do all kinds of crazy stuff, like adding horrible awnings, painting their bricks all sorts of terrible colors, creating unfortunate stucco details, covering over their cornices with bland vinyl

Not breaking news: Point Breeze has seen an incredible amount of development in the last several years. As a result of this development activity, we've seen entire blocks transformed, like the 1300 block of Chadwick Street or the 2000 block of Annin Street. Until very recently, both of these blocks

We were making our way across town on Wharton Street yesterday and spied a zoning notice at 1253-55 S. 18th St., a building that's been home to a church for many years. The sign on the building is actually pretty small, but some brick detail on the facade makes the

It's the calm before the storm on the 2000 block of Wharton Street. By "the calm," we mean there's a few homes under construction. By "the storm," of course, we mean that dozens of new homes are on the horizon. But first let's consider the present, shall we?A new home