In Temple Area

In December, we told you about five homes replacing empty lots at 2001-09 W. Oxford St., a few blocks north of the Girard College campus. At the time, the developers had just gone to zoning. Now, these buildings have been framed out and are getting facades.

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We were in the neighborhood today, driving around and snapping photos of all the new construction projects going on around Temple, where the latest crop of graduates emerged into a white hot job market just last week. Were we generally aggravated by the number of closed streets due to said

A few months ago, we brought a fabulous and unique building to your attention at 1519-21 N 16th St., mentioning a new addition being built immediately next door. This building looks like nothing we've seen before in Philadelphia or any other city. The bays are amazing.

While we would ordinarily be concerned

A couple months back, we told you about a recently started student housing project at 1516-18 N 15th St., replacing a demolished Voodoo Church. The former church, like many properties in the area, was over a hundred years old and built in the Italianate style.

North Broad Living, a company that owns

Last fall, we told you about Diamond Green, a new student housing development at 10th & Diamond Sts.

Brought to us by Mosaic Development Partners, Orens Brothers Real Estate, and Metamorphosis Community Development Corporation this mixed-use development will have 92 residential units as well as approximately 12K sqft of retail space. Parking, too.

Since we

Last summer, we gave you a big picture look at the tremendous amount of student housing development that's going on around Temple University. One of the photos that we used in that post showed five homes on the 1800 block of North 17th St. in the process of being constructed.

Back in early February, we brought the development at 1326-28 N 15th St. to your attention, noting plans for one of the larger new student housing developments in the Temple area. The project, which sits on the corner of 15th and Ingersoll Sts., has made tremendous progress in just two months.

As

On the southwest corner of Carlisle and Stiles Sts., Jin Feng Real Estate Investment LLC is planning seven new triplexes, ostensibly for student housing. Currently, this corner includes a vacant lot, a shell that used to be a speakeasy, and a garage that was turned into rental apartments at some

According to a zoning application from earlier this month, Amz Dev Inc hopes to build what we can only imagine is student housing at 1401 N 15th St., currently a vacant lot.

The developer purchased this lot in December for $290K, and has proposed ten residential units and eight parking spaces.

As you're probably well aware, we do plenty of galavanting around Philadelphia. In our wanderings, we spot all sorts of strange sights hither and yon. Last week, during a journey that took us to the west of Temple's campus, we spotted this:

From what we can gather, the address of this property is