In Spring Garden

If you always wanted to live near the Art Museum and have a spare couple million in your pocket, the Green Street Estates might be your dream come true. But it wasn't always clear that we'd end up with this project at this location. Two years ago, How Properties bought

The last few years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for 563 N. 20th St., a building on the northeast corner of 20th & Brandywine. For many years, it sat in a relatively unloved state, housing Park Grocery Co. on the first floor. Just looking at an

The other day, we heard from a reader, bringing a renovation effort at 673 N. 15th St. to our attention. This project apparently stalled out for a time, but construction has now resumed. Plans call for three apartments above an office space, and at least some of the first floor

The folks at MJL Properties have plans for more development, this time including some preservation in the Spring Garden Historic District. At 2001 North St., right behind Fairmount Pizza and half a block below Fairmount Avenue sits the old Potts Ice Cream factory.Wonderful building at the cornerBuilt in 1947, the corner

Last summer, we visited the long-shuttered former Saint Francis Xavier convent at 2322 Green St., located around the corner from the Art Museum. At the time, we were excited to share the news that the building would be coming back into use, with developers planning to convert the property into eighteen

It's only been a few months since we last shared news about Fairmount Avenue between 17th & 18th Streets, but a sometimes few months can be like an eternity in the development world. The last time we were here, old windows and plywood had been pulled out of the old

It was over three years ago that we first brought 1601 Mount Vernon St., the "Purvis House," to your attention, lamenting the poor condition of this historic structure. In case you don't remember and don't feel like clicking back to the old story, the building was constructed in 1859 and was once

At 1720 Fairmount Ave., what was for years a storage lot for building materials like brick and stone is now a framed out four-story building. When it's finished, it will include 18 new apartments and complete one of the closing paragraphs of the tale about redevelopment along Fairmount Avenue.In the

MM Partners has traditionally done a ton of development in Brewerytown, with a particular emphasis on rehabilitating storefronts on Girard Avenue. Now it seems they've got their sights set on a new corridor- Fairmount Avenue. Recently, a sign appeared on the front of the long-vacant Country Fresh Market building at

If you live in the Spring Garden or Francisville neighborhoods, you've surely noticed the former Mortgage Security Trust Company building on the corner of 18th & Fairmount. Heck, we don't live in either neighborhood and it caught our attention over three years ago. Back then, we plead to the cosmos