In Temple Area

For over 20 years, Project HOME has been at the forefront of getting stuff done when it comes to making inroads against Philadelphia's homelessness problem. Not only does the organization provide direct services like healthcare and adult education for the homeless population, but they also advocate for better public policy

Perhaps you haven't found yourself near 7th & Cecil B. Moore at any point in the recent past or... ever. But if you ever happen to make your way to this intersection, you'll quickly notice one of the more interesting churches in Philadelphia. New Greater Straightway Baptist Church has made their

Our first visit to the 1500 block of N. 16th St. came several years ago, when we discovered a stucco box apartment building filling a vacant lot next to an architectural gem. We were cheered back in 2014 when we learned that a larger apartment building was under construction next door,

This must a record- two visits to the area around Temple in one week, and nothing about student housing. Today, we come back to a project that we first told you about two and a half years ago. On the southwest corner of 16th & Oxford, a large old building was

We last checked in on the Ingersoll Commons project about a year and a half ago, when construction fences had just appeared at a long-vacant lot at 16th & Master. This lot had been owned by City agencies since the 1980s, and a few years back Community Ventures was selected as

Just a block and a half from the Pearl Theater on Broad Street, the 1600 block of N. Sydenham Street is pretty much in Temple's backyard. You'd think, given the location, that the entire block would be student housing. But it's actually a mix of vacant land, older homes, buildings

There's more demolition coming to the 1400 block of North 15th Street. About a year and a half ago, we discovered that 1415 N. 15th St. was coming down. It was a shame to see this structure, an older building with a brownstone face on its first floor and offset

The other day, we were running errands pretty far north. Far enough north in fact, that we passed Botany 500, the Traylor Building, and the North Philadelphia train station and thought to ourselves -- not for the first time -- that the whole area oozed untapped potential. And then, a

We keep noticing something strange whenever we find ourselves on Diamond Street just beyond Temple’s campus. While the rest of the blocks in this part of town are absolutely littered with shiny new by-right walk-up plexes rented by the room to students, Diamond Street seems to be stuck in place

The other day, we found ourselves up around Temple again, eating a delicious lunch at Champ’s Diner and wondering what’s next for the neighborhood. Working off some of those calories, we turned onto 18th Street from Cecil B. Moore Avenue and there we saw a pair of new triplexes under