In Temple Area

Every now and then, despite our best efforts, we don't get the facts right. And usually in such cases, we find the need to come clean, eventually. Which is what we're doing right now. Back in March, we told you about three new quadplexes that were about to go up

We were killing time yesterday before heading to a ZBA hearing, and decided to take a quick jaunt to the neighborhood near Temple to see if we could spot anything interesting. Probably the most noteworthy thing we noticed was at 1534 N. 16th St., a large old building that's undergoing

Weeks ago, we wondered whether a former factory at 8th & Jefferson could represent an opportunity for future redevelopment. Though the site is only a half a dozen blocks away from Temple University, and just a couple of blocks south of the still-under-construction Paseo Verde project, it still has significant limitations in

Yesterday, we told you about Soko Lofts, a rather larger (three-hundred-plus units!) mixed-use development planned for the corner of 2nd & Thompson. Today, we have some preliminary info on a proposed project that should rise just a few blocks away.

At the intersection of 7th & Thompson, one immediately notices the

A few years ago, 17th & Page, just a couple of blocks from Temple's Main Campus, was pretty bleak. Sure, a few units were built near here back in 2008, but vacant land ruled the intersection for the most part.

The southern points of this intersection were (and remain) vacant as

If you've ever walked, driven, or biked around the northern end of Temple's campus, perhaps you've marveled at the beautiful and surprisingly intact architecture of Diamond Street. In an area that's seen more than its share of vacancy and blight in recent decades, many of the Victorian townhouses on Diamond

About a year ago, we checked in on the 1800 block of N 17th St., noting a series of new duplexes featuring shiny bay windows. A few months later, we checked back in on the same block, and told you about some more new construction on the block, this time

Philadelphia used to be a home to a thriving industrial economy. Many factories that once buzzed with the work of daily life in Kensington, Old City, or the loft district are now apartments, transformed by developers with an eye toward the city's history.

A building that has yet to be transformed

As any Temple student or regular reader of this site is well aware, there's been a tremendous amount of new development in the area surrounding Temple in the last several years. So when we spotted a ZBA notice for a new development at 1901 N. 19th St., we figured it

Last week, we looked at a couple of items of interest on Carlisle Street, a side street that lies immediately to the west of Broad. First, we looked at some blight on the 1300 block, purchased from the PRA ten years ago but never developed. Then, we considered the lack