In West Philly

Okay, show of hands, who remembers Wurst House Pizzeria, the awfully named place at 43rd & Baltimore that was better known for its 40s than for its pizza? Perhaps more people recall when new owners came in about a decade ago and "rebranded" the place as Best House Pizzeria despite

On a mild day over the weekend, we took a stroll around the West Powelton area of West Philly, a neighborhood which has been seeing tremendous construction of aesthetically questionable but undoubtedly useful student housing in recent years. During our walk, we happened upon an old abandoned apartment building-turned-church at 437

Historically, if you'd ask an incoming freshman at Penn where they'd like to live, it was a pretty safe bet that they wouldn't offer up Hill College House as their first choice. There are many reasons for this, including the hilariously small rooms, the dated interiors, and a less central

It was almost exactly a year ago that we shared the news that the Summit at University City project was finished at 34th & Lancaster, and that businesses were starting to move into the project's numerous retail spaces. As we brought you that worthwhile update, we also discovered some new

So much has changed at the western end of Penn's campus since 2001, when Fresh Grocer opened at the northwest corner of 40th & Walnut. The Radian sprouted on the 3900 block of Walnut, replacing some run down stores and a gross movie theater. A pair of Hub buildings have

We were traveling through Powelton Village the other day and spied a very minor construction project, but it looked pretty unusual so we figured it was worth a mention. Thanks to its architecture, this neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, but for whatever reason,

For those unfamiliar, the University City Science Center is an urban research center in, big surprise, West Philly, on Market Street next to Drexel and Penn. The campus of the Science Center stretches over multiple blocks, covering 15 buildings and includes office and lab space for start-up and mature companies alike.

Until a couple of years ago, the 4000 block of Chestnut Street boasted four nearly identical pairs of Italianate twins designed by Thomas H. Powers and built shortly after the Civil War. A little over a year ago, University Realty demoed the buildings at 4042-44 Chestnut St. and have since built a

As Philadelphia development has boomed in the last decade or so, we've seen major changes in several neighborhoods, like Point Breeze, Francisville, and East Kensington, for example. In each of those neighborhoods and a few others, new construction has filled in vast swaths of vacant land, and developers have repaired

Student housing has boomed across many sections of West Philadelphia, with tons of new buildings rising in Mantua in recent years. The construction has slowly crept northward, but it hasn't yet made its way to Ogden Street, where we will draw your gaze on this rainy afternoon. This part of