In Point Breeze

We were traveling down Point Breeze Avenue the other day when a couple new projects caught our eye. Remember, this street was once a vibrant neighborhood commercial corridor to the extent that people living in the neighborhood didn't need to venture into Center City to buy stuff. While it's true that

Broad Street just south of Washington Avenue has a few different projects under construction at the moment. At Broad & Alter, work has proceeded on a 53-unit mixed-use building which suffered a delay of a couple years between presentation and groundbreaking. A 62-unit building at Broad & Ellsworth has moved at blazing

There's a nondescript warehouse at 2100 Washington Ave., with peach painted stucco on its Washington Avenue facade and exposed cinderblocks running down 21st Street. The site has predictably been used for industrial purposes for many years, with the current warehouse built over two phases in the 1980s, replacing another warehouse that stood

Point Breeze has changed dramatically over the last decade, with many old homes either rehabbed or replaced, and countless vacant lots filled in by new construction. While the shift is obvious everywhere, some blocks really hit you over the head with just how much they've changed. The 2200 block of Wilder Street

There's some new demolition activity on Point Breeze Avenue, and it portends the largest mixed-use project on this corridor in living memory. Speaking of living memory, let's pour one out for the building that stood here for the last century or so, which was historically the home of a Kresce

If you're a member of the Philly skateboarding community, you probably visited 1702-08 Alter St. at some point in the last dozen years. From 2007 through the end of 2018, this building was commonly known simply as Alter Street and was home to a huge indoor skate park, also hosting fundraisers,

It was almost a year ago that we called your attention to the northwest corner of 17th & Federal, where we noted some ongoing demolition activity. The property in question was 1701 Federal St., a two-story, quadruple-wide commercial building which was once home to a corner store but had been

Coming down Point Breeze Avenue, there's a new building at 2151-53 Cross St. that's visible from about a block away. Though the address of this property, for a long time a vacant lot, is on Cross Street, the majority of its frontage is on Point Breeze Avenue. So the property

If you've spent much time in Point Breeze, you've surely noticed the atypical homes on the 2100 blocks of Alter, Ellsworth, Annin, and Federal Streets. As we told you way back in 2011, roughly two-dozen homes were constructed as for-sale affordable housing on these blocks in the early 1980s, eschewing

Roughly half a dozen years ago, we told you about the demolition of the former Saint Rita's school at the southwest corner of Broad & Ellsworth. As the name suggests, the school was associated with the Saint Rita of Cascia Shrine, the handsome building located just next door, to the south. The