In South Kensington

Over a year ago, we told you that the folks from Indy Hall were teaming with the folks from Postgreen to establish a co-housing project at 1711 N. Howard St., just a few doors up the street from the First Steel homes. We were in that neck of the woods

We've probably passed by the intersection of N Howard St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave. dozens of times in the past, but we somehow never noticed that there's a building at this intersection that looks a lot like a castle without a moat. Have you seen this building before?

1625 N.

In recent years, the number of local coffee roasteries in Philadelphia has exploded. Chestnut Hill, One Village, Green Street, and L'Aube are just a few of the local roasters that have contributed to the evolving coffee scene in our fine town. Another local roaster, ReAnimator Coffee, recently moved to a new

Last week, we told you about a vacant lot on Thompson Street that was potentially getting twelve new residential units. Today, we have some info on a development a block away, just on the other side of the El, that's much further along.

Duplexellence is a new project at 110 W.

Nine months ago, we told you about the upcoming second phase of construction on the corner of 2nd & Oxford, where RPM Builders LP was about to add eighteen new apartments to a development that had just seen a dozen units constructed.

As you can see, this new effort features some

Last week, we gave you a brief update that the affordable housing development in Norris Square, at the Saint Boniface site, was finally moving along, with foundations prepared for seven new homes. In that story, we also suggested that the ten home project on Susquehanna St. that we had previously

Members of the Norris Square Civic Association and Councilwoman Quinones Sanchez have resolved their differences regarding the St. Boniface Development, at least formally.

Instead of building 15 multi-family units on the site of the former church, located at Diamond and Hancock Streets, seven single-family homes will be constructed on the site of the demolished church, according to Sanchez.

At the five-point intersection of N 3rd St., Germantown Ave., and Thompson Sts. stand the Flats at Girard Pointe, a multi-unit housing development built by JDT International, the same folks who buit the Flatz@2015. Not only are these homes notable for their location and architecture, but also for the urban topiary

Though commonly known as the commercial thoroughfare in Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill, Germantown Avenue actually begins in Northern Liberties, running between the two Piazza complexes. Traveling just a couple of blocks to the north, Germantown Ave. transforms completely, with vacant land and several blighted buildings on either side of

We got an email from a helpful reader the other day, with some interesting news for a rough-looking building on Girard Avenue. Across the street from a BP station, 527 W. Girard Ave. has clearly seen better days. Home to a theatre of some kind in the past, and before