In West Philly

This 5-year-old townhouse-style condo is situated around the corner from Clark Park, Green Line Cafe and the 34 trolley on a lovely block in West Philadelphia. The condo features hardwood floors throughout, floor-to-ceiling windows and an open floor plan, and the kitchen has stainless appliances and granite

Dock Street Brewery (50th and Baltimore) will welcome summer this year by celebrating their third annual Philadelphia Beer Week Music Festival tomorrow on June 12th from 2 to 6:30pm. The Brewery has three areas of attraction which they aptly describe as: the Beers, the Sounds and the Grub. Dock Street will offer

Biking around West Philly, the sight of St. Francis de Sales Church at 47th and Springfield Avenue hits you like a pleasant slap in the face. This church is enormous and unique; built in Byzantine style and loosely based on Istanbul’s incredible St. Sophia Museum. It was built using white brick,

As Penn and Drexel continue to expand in all directions, the appetite for student housing refuses to be sated. Builders McAlinden & Regan, two extremely pleasant fellows if we do say so, are in the midst of transforming the corner of 40th and Baring Sts. into a paradise for students

After nearly a year in the making, it seems like things may finally be coming together at the section of Clark Park, which borders Baltimore Avenue (known as Park A). The month of May has seen several small, but meaningful milestones: the grass was cut for the first time on

The abandoned 25,875 square feet of at the Croydon Apartments at 241 S. 49th Street were up for sheriff's sale recently. We found it on the Abandoned But Not Forgotten blog and got a scary peak inside. We didn't want to be the only ones with dreams of The Candyman, so we

"According to the facilities website, 'the 3600, 3800 and 3900 blocks of Locust Walk are undergoing renovations including  the replacement of underground utilities and the paved surface.' This affects us all summer and a bit into the fall because 'the intensity of the work in a confined space requires that pedestrians

Honest Tom’s Taco Truck has plans to open a brick and mortar location at 261 S. 44th Street. The popular food truck has made its mark traveling around the city (alerting customers of their location via Facebook/Twitter), selling creative taco concoctions to those who visit.  Now, according to Honest Tom’s owner

There is a new Mediterranean restaurant coming to West Philly at 4630-32 Baltimore Avenue by the name of Aksum. The vision/inspiration for Aksum, according to owner Saba Tedla, was to create a modern, hip Mediterranean restaurant in a neighborhood that is in need of another quaint destination that locals feel

The Friends of Clark Park Planning Committee and Studio Bryan Hanes have been hard at work renovating the North Park of Clark Park. But they aren't done yet. The team is now starting the process of studying how to improve the Middle and South (the least used area) Parks between