In West Philly

Back in 2010, the first Nesting House location opened its doors in the Mount Airy neighborhood. This store wants to break the "traditional route of consumerism," offering high quality used goods in a setting that's more boutique than thrift store. They realized success and continued to grow, and in 2013 they opened a

Crossing the Walnut Street Bridge, you quickly notice two of the newer buildings to join Philadelphia's skyline. And really, they're just two parts of the same project.FMC plus EvoFMC Tower at Cira Centre South is the one with frontage on Walnut Street and it's more easily identified as the one

Imagine tiered wooden platforms mixed with mingling flowers, reds, blues and yellows, among planters and vine canopies; bright, custom-made swings; and rotisserie cooked meals. All of these are among the first wave of permanent fixtures at The Porch, the excellent public space in front of 30th Street Station.Created four years

The saga of 4224 Baltimore Ave. has taken a satisfying turn.Photo from awhile ago but it still appliesWe first pondered this property back in the spring of 2012, wondering how it was possible that a large vacant lot could exist across the street from the wonderful Clark Park. A year later,

Two summers ago, we first introduced talk about Greensgrow expanding from Kensington to a West Philly location at a long vacant lot at 51st & Baltimore. And it was exciting to see that this community urban farm that nineteen years ago started as a hydroponic lettuce farm on a reclaimed brownfield

It looks like there's development on the way for a long quiet parcel in Cedar Park. For years, a vacant building and a fair-sized surface parking lot have occupied a prime corner where Cedar Avenue intersects with Baltimore Avenue near 46th Street. Permits were issued this spring for the demolition

For years, an empty lot sat at 31st & Spring Garden, greeting or bidding farewell to those passing over the Spring Garden Bridge. For a number of those years a sign on the site broadcasted the possibility of a high-rise but that did not come to pass. Back in December,

In the spring of 2012, a Subway franchise opened near 46th & Baltimore. At the time, several neighbors decried the move- some were upset because it was a chain and others that were worried customers would zip in and out of a parking alley behind the adjacent homes.The store had a 10-year-lease, but it closed

In terms of development, it's been anything but quiet over in West Philly lately. Consider, we've seen consistent institutional building in University City by big names like Drexel, Penn, and the University City Science Center; driving through University City, one can see a bunch of big new buildings sprinkled around,

In West Philly, change has finally occurred on the southwest corner of 46th & Sansom, a parcel that has been vacant for many years. A little over a year ago, we noticed the beginnings of construction activity at this site, and mentioned plans for six quadplexes. Last winter, it looked like the