In Brewerytown

According to Planphilly, a developer intends to build on the site pictured above, on the corner of Girard Ave. and Corinthian St., and has proposed tearing down the existing buildings to construct two new buildings with 42 residential units. These buildings are part of a historic district, but are not

Celebration Banquet Hall, located at 2709 Cecil B Moore Ave., has been closed for quite awhile but is apparently interested in reopening. The building, formerly a grocery store and before that a church, could definitely use some work, but the people at Celebration were not willing to go into any

They have Art + Soulfood every year, are currently working on North28 and are eating from their Marathon Farm. Brewerytown is continually pushing forward as a community, but many Philadelphians still have no idea what B-town is all about. The boys behind MM Partners recently launched BrewertytownLiving.com online community to

On June 11 between 5 and 8pm, Brewerytown will be having the third annual Art + SoulFood festival, an event that started in 2009. Put on by local artists and musicians in partnership with local restaurants and property owners, Art + SoulFood showcases local talent and brings attention to a particular section of

We just took a trip to the North28 site at 1238 N. 28th Street; construction is well underway. MM Partners tells us that boxes will be on site in early July and the model unit should be ready shortly thereafter. Even more interesting, though, was the 1881 stone that we

Councilman Darrell Clarke and state representative Michelle Brownlee had a great deal of support last week as they presented their updated project plans for the supermarket at 31st and Girard Avenue. Soloff Realty is buying the site from Westrum Development and building a Bottom Dollar, similar to the one they

Terrence Williams is one of Philly's few entrepreneurs with the unfortunate problem of expanding faster than his landlord allows. Williams' business of building custom colored bikes from recycled and refurbished bike parts has grown enough to push him to move out of his current space at 11th and Vine to his first

North 28 luxury prefab condominiums are moving into Brewerytown at 1238 N. 28th Street. MM Partners, who is spearheading the project, has closed on a construction loan from Beneficial Bank needed to begin building and are looking to finish the project by the end of this summer. The building will

Philadelphia’s Department of Public Property (sounds exciting) awarded Marathon Farm (headed by Patrick Dunn, a former Greensgrow farmer and the founder of Emerald Street Urban Farm) a 15,750-square-lot at 27th and Master Streets. (See also: Food Forrest garden.) This is undoubtedly a large lot and as city gardens go (ask Greensgrow),