In Brewerytown

Brewerytown is picking up speed. West Girard continues to improve incrementally, with a new place from the Pizza Brain guys coming soon. Developers are building new homes and renovating vacant buildings at an accelerating pace. MM Partners is doing their thing. Ditto Westrum, with over a hundred new apartment units

The Old English Tavern sat vacant and blighted at the corner of Taney & Poplar for many years, tempting people like us that constantly wonder about redevelopment possibilities and torturing neighbors with its deteriorating condition. The building was in poor condition, but it did have an amazing sign.Several years agoThis

We're probably subscribed to every community group e-newsletter in town, and on days we're willing to sift through the neighborhood minutiae (lost cat! found dog! parking is getting tougher! neighborhood wine tour! school bake sale!), we commonly find out about development projects that will be coming before the community. It

Since we wrote about some renovation and new construction activity on Hollywood Street in Brewerytown last week, a couple of people have reached out to us, asking about some other projects nearby. Three additional projects can be found just steps away from Hollywood Street, which tells us that we probably

Yesterday, thanks to a reader tip, we found ourselves on a Brewerytown block we'd never visited before. Hollywood Street runs between 29th and Myrtlewood Streets, and the 1200 block can be accessed either from Stiles Street or Thompson Street. Almost every home on the block is of the two story

We've had our eye on 2835-37 W. Girard Ave. for many years now, and our vigilance has finally been rewarded. We first brought this property to your attention about four years ago, noting that it had been damaged in a fire a few years prior and had sat vacant and

Okay, back to Philly real estate.We last visited the somewhat rough 2700 block of W. Stiles Street a few months ago, when we told you about a proposal to demolish a seemingly vacant building on this block and replace it with a duplex. For whatever reason, when the project went

It's been about a year since we last visited the 3000 block of Cambridge Street, a block that's seen great improvement in the last few years. In 2011, when PHA decided to auction off a few hundred of their vacant properties, five homes on this block were included in the

We've been to Brewerytown a bunch of times over the years, but somehow never found our way to the 3000 block of W. Cabot Street. Perhaps that's because the block extends only about eighty feet before abruptly terminating in a dead-end. If you ever visit, you'll discover a mere six

A reader recently reached out and gave us the heads up that a new home has arrived on the northwest corner of 29th & Harper, on a property that's been vacant for many years. So we moseyed up there to take a peek. Here, check out the before and after