In Temple Area

Earlier this week, we tipped you off to an upcoming development at 20th and Oxford Sts., representing an extreme western example of the expansion of off-campus housing for Temple students. Today, we look at a project coming to the 2300 block of N. 12th St., a desolate block that sits

According to five zoning applications from September, four developers intend to build five homes at 2001-2009 W. Oxford St. These are currently vacant lots.

The proposed homes will apparently differ from one another. 2001 W. Oxford St. will be a three story duplex. 2003 will be a duplex with a garage.

In the Logan section of North Philadelphia, there lies a highly mysterious area bounded by Wingohocking, Louden, 11th St., and Roosevelt Blvd. Here, a crumbling grid of streets run through 35 acres of empty lots. It goes by many names: Philly's Bermuda Triangle, Logan Triangle, and several local colloquialisms, but

Where else in Philly could you have seen The Jackson 5, The Supremes, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, BB King, and Stevie Wonder? The Uptown Theater, of course. Located at 2240 N. Broad Street, just north of Temple University, the Uptown Theater is a beautiful art deco building, built in 1929. Uptown is

As we reported back in April, PHA is constructing fifty-one new units on the 2000 block of N. 11th St., which are replacing the demolished Norris Apartments high-rise, a 179-unit building originally constructed in the 1950's. The new Norris Apartments are located a block from the North Philadelphia Septa station,

A new development is in the works at the edge of Temple University's campus, brought to you by the same people behind the hotel development at the Legendary Blue Horizon. Mosaic Development Partners and Orens Brothers Real Estate, along with Metamorphosis Community Development Corporation, are breaking ground this month on

Way back in 2009, word came out that Bright Hope Baptist Church and the Goldenberg Group were partnering to redevelop the 4.6 acre former Wanamaker Middle School at 11th and Cecil B. Moore Ave. with the goal of creating about one-thousand housing units for Temple students, a neighborhood charter school,

Just a stone's throw away from Temple University at 1314 N. Broad Street, the Legendary Blue Horizon currently sits unused. The building has a long and interesting history: built in 1865 in the French Second Empire architectural style (same as City Hall) as three separate mansions for rich guys, it

Why is Kelly Drive a well-maintained, boast-worthy road and trail, and Ridge Avenue a dilapidated, run-down street that's full of litter and whose highest purpose could be that it's part of the route for the 61 bus?

The condition of Ridge Ave. really irked Josh Goodsell, founder and director of the Philadelphia

Last week, 2000 North Broad LLC, the owners of 2304-2310 N Broad St., went before the ZBA to request a number of variances to develop two properties near the intersection of Broad and W Dauphin Sts., north of Temple University.

According to the application, they intend to build two new buildings