In West Philly

At 46th & Baltimore in West Philly, Subway is closed, but Jared and his gang still have plans to sell sandwiches at this location. The original franchise operator has left and Subway is looking for another, according to Barry Grossbach, Spruce Hill Community Association zoning chair.Shuttered Subway“I could only tell

It seems that Penn is always building something these days. Some stuff, like a new college house on Hill Field, we've covered already. Other stuff, like the new building under construction on 38th Street, we didn't even realize was happening until a reader tipped us off. This despite the fact

The parts of Mantua closest to Drexel have seen a ton of construction in recent years, and the redevelopment is seemingly continuing unabated. Construction is taking place in all shapes and sizes, with one-off projects joined by massive buildings and everything in between. Looking down 34th Street, we see various

Traveling west across the Spring Garden Bridge, dodging construction, you can't help but notice a new building is getting built at the corner of 31st & Spring Garden at the end of the bridge.Looking west on the Spring Garden BridgeCloser lookThis project has actually been years in the making. Two years

On a cold Tuesday night earlier this month, volunteers gathered in a West Philadelphia elementary school library at 56th & Spruce that's been closed for a few years, working to clean up the room, weeding outdated old books.It's the beginning of work that will reopen a library in the Alexander

If you've looked west from Center City across the river, it's hard to miss the growing University City skyline. There's now Evo near the Cira Centre; a 25-story mixed-use tower going up at 38th & Chestnut; and The Study, a new 10-story hotel is going up at 33rd & Chestnut; next to

Back in the spring we shared news how a decade-long vacant corner lot at 46th & Sansom had finally changed hands from the Redevelopment Authority to new owners, a process that took almost ten years, and work on six buildings, each with four two-bedroom apartments, was underway. But when we passed by

For three years, we've covered various renovation and construction efforts surrounding 40th & Baring in West Philly, most recently visiting some new projects last week. Every few months or so, a reader has checked in, wondering about 437 N. 40th St., an apparently vacant building on the southeast corner of

The number of projects popping up in recent years on the blocks surrounding 40th & Baring has really been astounding. On Baring Street numerous apartment buildings have risen, mostly housing students, generally replacing vacant lots. Recently, a new run of construction and renovation has gotten underway in the area. A

It wasn't so long ago that we first told you about plans to demolish engineering labs at 34th & Lancaster and replace them with a large mixed-use student housing building, ostensibly for Drexel kids. About a year ago, those efforts got underway and when we checked back here in January the