In East Kensington

When considering investment opportunities, many developers prioritize by-right projects because those projects allow for a streamlined process and don't involve compromises with a community group or negotiations with the ZBA. Not to say that either of those factors are inherently bad, but from a developer's standpoint they represent added risk. For any

2529 Frankford Ave. was home to the VFW Post 22 since at least the 1950s, offering a gathering place for veterans in Fishtown. We don't really understand how these sorts of establishments work, but we do know that the VFW sold their building the developers back in 2015, seemingly ceasing

We couldn't tell you whether the auto garage at 2319 Amber St. was wonderful, terrible, or somewhere in the middle. We do know though, that this business made perfect sense at this location for a long time. The surrounding blocks were a sea of older homes and vacant lots, with

It's quite possible that the old warehouse at 2601 Emerald St. was once a nice enough building, perhaps in its early days as a dye works, and maybe even when it was used by a bottling company through at least the 1960s. As time has passed though, the building has

Hagert Street between Jasper and Emerald has undergone incredible change over the last number of years, and there's more change brewing. When we were in the neighborhood the other day, we happened upon a new hole in the ground at 1914 E. Hagert St., next to a large blue garage. This

It shouldn't require much digging in the ol' memory bank to remember the story we wrote yesterday about an apartment building that's under construction on Kensington Avenue. In case you stayed up late to watch the World Series, allow us to jog your memory. 2411 Kensington Ave. used to look like

Over the last few years, we've covered numerous projects on Front Street, watching as this long blighted corridor has slowly come back to life. Intuitively, Front Street's comeback makes sense, with Fishtown booming on one side and South Kensington rapidly improving on the other. Sure, the sound and shadow of

East Kensington has been on a rather dramatic upswing over the last several years, but the neighborhood was struggling for decades before this recent boom. We believe it was likely the NTI efforts by the Street administration that knocked down hundreds of blighted buildings in the neighborhood, leaving it with a

It wasn't that long ago that construction on Amber Street in East Kensington was cause for celebration, a sign that development in Fishtown was spreading to the other side of Frankford Avenue. Today though? Amber Street is so 2011. As we've told you time and again, development has spread throughout

It took us three tries to correctly type Coral & Firth and not Colin & Firth in the title of this post, and even now, looking at Coral & Firth, it just looks wrong. We're going to try to get this right throughout, but if we have a slip up,