In South Kensington

As South Kensington has seen incredible redevelopment activity over the last few years, the 1400 block of Germantown Avenue in particular has undergone an incredible transformation. Developers have systematically bought up vacant lots and blighted buildings on the west side of the block, building over a dozen new homes and

A row of properties near the intersection of 3rd Street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue has been sitting vacant for a long time, surely for many years before Google started recording images in its Streetview function in 2007. This should come as no surprise, as this neighborhood was in bad

It's quite possible that the R.B. Dutt Company dye works at 1736 Mascher St. was a very impressive edifice a century ago, but it's certainly not making any "best of" lists nowadays. A company called Interior Creations has been based out of this property in recent years, building custom furniture

There's a building on the northeast corner of 3rd & Girard that we suspected was sitting vacant for many years.In the pastUh, our bad. It turns out the building at 1201 N. 3rd St. has been in use as a master carpentry shop, so says a listing for the property

Though we've visited South Kensington on countless occasions, we don't think we ever found ourselves on the 1200 block of N. Hancock Street. So when a reader reached out, mentioning that a church at 1217-23 N. Hancock St. had recently changed hands, we couldn't even picture the building. When we

When we told you about an upcoming eleven home development on the east side of the 1400 block of N. Howard St. a couple months ago, we expressed optimism that the large warehouse on the western side of the block would eventually get redeveloped. We didn't realize at the time

Remember the ski-slope building on the 1300 block of N. Front St. that we told you about last summer? Here's a look at the finished product, which looks as weird and as wonderful as we'd hoped.Ski slope buildingJust to the north of this new building, a reader recently brought the

A reader tipped us off last week that construction had finally gotten underway at 1326 Mascher St., a long vacant lot in South Kensington. We told you to prepare for this project back in the fall of 2014, and at the time we predicted that construction would get moving rather

There's a little stretch of Jefferson Street in South Kensington, between N. American and N. Bodine Streets, where three different projects are currently at various stages and two others have occurred within the last few years. Considering that there's only seven properties on this mini-block, that's a pretty amazing situation.

Construction

Cue the music from Game of Thrones...We first took you to the intersection of Hope Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue a few years back, when we brought your attention to a castle-like structure which was once a firehouse. Let's call it Kensington Castle from now on, huh? Now we