In Brewerytown

Last year, we wondered how new construction, ostensibly for student housing, would fit into the context of the Diamond Street Historic District near Temple. At the time, we didn't realize that there's a second historically protected section of Diamond Street in Strawberry Mansion. The West Diamond Street Townhouse Historic District

A couple years back, we told you about plans for the renovation of a blighted building on the southwest corner of 24th & Thompson, where Brewerytown meets Sharswood. At the time, we were excited to hear that the old building would be renovated, and were likewise pleased to see development

Yesterday, a reader tipped us off about a renovation in process at 2439 N. College Ave., across the street from the stone walls surrounding Girard College. It's an unusual parcel with a combination of a one-story corner commercial space and a three-story row home on one lot. We couldn't tell

The 2700 block of W. George St., which runs between Cambridge and Poplar Streets, is pretty desolate. It's got a bunch of vacant lots that people park on, and nothing by way of buildings with the exception of a small section of a warehouse that fronts 28th Street. The reason

The resurgence of West Girard Avenue in Brewerytown has been well documented. New restaurants like Rybrew and Shifty's Taco give residents new dining options. An old church is in the process of being converted into apartments. A giant vacant lot could be redeveloped into a mixed-use project. And there's a

Ah, the heady days of 2011. The iPhone 4 was state of the art. The Phillies were still good at baseball. And MM Partners were renovating two buildings on the corner of Taney & Girard. The project was called 'The Braverman Building,' named after a hardware store and bakery that

Yesterday, we told you about plans for sixty-four rental apartments at 31st & Thompson, behind Brewerytown's still-relatively-new Bottom Dollar Food. Today, we direct your attention just a little to the south, to 1213 N. 31st St., where a little more development is on tap. Instead of being behind the market, this

We'd argue that the two biggest developments in Brewerytown in the last decade are Brewerytown Square, a collection of townhomes built by Westrum before the recession, and Bottom Dollar Food, a grocery store that opened just a couple of years ago. When we were in the neighborhood the other day,

A few weeks back, we told you that a fence had appeared around a long-vacant former bar at Taney & Poplar. We hoped that this meant that the building would soon come down and be replaced by redevelopment. But considering the track record of the property's owners, we recognized that

We've visited the 3000 block of Stiles Street several times in the last few years and the number of vacant blighted properties was always striking to us, especially considering the block's close proximity to the reinvigorated Girard Avenue corridor. Last summer, we told you about renovations to a couple of