There's nothing quite like strolling around leafy West Mount Airy on a pleasant summer afternoon, so earlier this week we decided to check in on the construction of the Royce Building at 367 W. Hortter St., down the street from SEPTA's Upsal train station.As you may recall from our previous

We bet you didn't know that much of the southern portion of Grays Ferry is fairly new, at least as far as Philadelphia's built environment goes. In the early part of the 20th century, the neighborhood pretty much stopped at Tasker Street. By the 1940s, the neighborhood filled in as

It's no secret that the nexus of Northern Liberties/South Kensington/Fishtown is the fastest growing section of our fair city these days. Thousands of units have come online here over the last several years, with a collection of businesses of varying sizes springing up to support all the new residents in

Can you find Capitol Street on a map? We'll give you a hint: it runs north-south between 21st and 22nd Streets. Still nothing? Well, it's understandable, as it exists for exactly four blocks in the entire city. South Capitol Street has two blocks in South Philly, running between Wharton and

An adaptive reuse project in East Kensington is moving forward, and it's made pretty good progress since our last visit. You may recall, we covered 1838-42 E. Huntingdon St. last November, when developers were undertaking some interior demolition in a circa-1950s industrial building that was originally constructed for a glass

Heading down Ridge Avenue the other day, some new construction just south of Girard caught out eye. A new building sits a couple doors down from the Smith Chapel Baptist Church, which is located in the historic former Northwestern National Bank. This area has seen a staggering amount of new

We were traveling through South Philly the other day, when some fresh-looking demolition caught our eye. We didn't have much context for what things looked like before at 1909-13 S. 12th St., but thankfully the Time Machine function in Google Maps was able to help us fill in the blanks.The

For many years, 11th Street Auto Repair, located at the northwest corner of 11th & Christian, was our go-to shop for our car-related needs. Whether it was inspections, an oil change, a flat tire, or a check engine light, this spot was reliable, honest, and generally affordable. We recommended 11th

We last brought 1423 Spruce St. to your attention last October, when we told you that developers were planning to demolish a two-story building and replace it with a seven-story mixed-use project. This plan was complicated by the fact that the property sits in the Rittenhouse Fitler Historic District. Since

Over the last few years, we've seen several underused properties in Chinatown fill in with mid-rise residential development. Back in 2015, we brought your attention to a former surface parking lot at 1031 Spring St., where a steel structure had risen seven stories, in preparation for a new building with