In Washington Square West
New Mixed-Use Building Coming Soon at 11th & Pine
21 January, 2022 | No Comments | Washington Square West
Antique Row is a neither an antique, nor a row. Discuss.All joking aside, Antique Row is located roughly on the 900-1100 blocks of Pine Street, and it shows up on Philadelphia tourist maps as a commercial destination. According to a Hidden City story from ten years ago, the Antique Row
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Before people walked around with supercomputers in their pockets, before television offered us unlimited channels or even a handful of channels, people learned about what was going on in the world almost exclusively through newspapers. The newspaper business was a great business to be in back in the 1800s and
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The building at the northeast corner of Broad & Pine rises three stories, with the ground floor space that was used for years as a Starbucks and the a small parking garage on the upper floors. While parking garages are certainly a need for Center City, this still qualifies as
Read More11th & Walnut Tower Will Expand to the West and Make More Sense
24 September, 2021 | No Comments | Washington Square West
1101 Walnut St. had been home to a Wendy's restaurant since 1980, with Wendy's taking over a one-story building that was constructed for a bank back in 1967. Check out some more detailed history of the property here. Perhaps a one-story building made sense here in the year that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Read MorePlans For 12th & Sansom Tower Have Changed Some
15 March, 2021 | No Comments | Washington Square West
Roughly five years ago, we asked you to consider the ridiculous underuse at the southeast corner of 12th & Sansom, noting that Brickstone had purchased the two-story parking garage at the site but didn't yet have a decision on what to do with the well located property. This acquisition made sense,
Read MoreFour Homes Coming Behind Clinton Court Apartments?
28 October, 2020 | No Comments | Washington Square West
Clinton Court is a five-story apartment building at the northeast corner of 10th & Clinton with more history and less luck than we ever realized. For a good chunk of the first half of the 20th century, the Clinton Hotel stood at this location, running from Clinton to Cypress Street
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A reader reached out to us recently, wondering about some nearly completed demolition activity near the corner of 8th & Walnut. Needless to say, this is not an area that typically sees buildings get torn down, so our first assumption was that we were losing a wonderful historic structure. In reality? Not
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Philadelphia has more history than most cities in America, but even its oldest neighborhoods aren't frozen in time. From a real estate perspective, that generally means that old buildings get torn down and replaced by shiny new structures. Sometimes though, we see older buildings preserved, with their use and appearance evolving over the
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We've long loved the Keystone National Bank building at the corner of Juniper & Chestnut, admiring its amazing bones and wondering how such a marvelous building at such a tremendous location could have found itself in such a state of blight and disrepair. This edifice is more commonly known as the Hale
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An address on Broad Street in Center City, aka the Avenue of the Arts, is a trophy location in Philadelphia, and you'd think that these blocks would be lined with cultural institutions and/or tall buildings jammed with offices or apartments. This is generally the case next to City Hall, but within
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