In East Kensington

Allow us to present to you our latest installment of our long running series, Development Near the El. On our last episode, we covered a collection of triplexes under construction on the 1900 block of E. Dauphin St., and before that we told you about new construction on Huntingdon Street,

It was just a couple of weeks ago that we drew your gaze to the 1800 block of E. Huntingdon St., noting a pair of triplexes under construction immediately next door to the Huntingdon El Station. In general, we find it surprising just how much development has happened so close to

As we've told you on many prior occasions, 16' is the typical width for a new construction home. From time to time, you'll see wider homes, in the 17' to 20' range, in high end projects in desirable neighborhoods. 15' of width still works for a new home, 14' starts

It seems like every few days, we see a new story about the struggles in Kensington, where there's seemingly no end in sight to the opioid epidemic. Remarkably, East Kensington continues to experience one of the most significant development booms in the city, even though the neighborhood sits, at some

We've visited the 1900 block of E. Cumberland a couple times in the past, following along as new construction has filled in vacancy on the block. In the fall of 2015, we noted a pair of new homes at 1908-10 E. Cumberland St., from Callahan Ward. About half a year later,

We were in East Kensington over the weekend, trying to snap some photos of new development, but road work diverted us onto Kensington Avenue. This ended up working out nicely, as we stumbled upon some new construction at 2459 Kensington Ave. that we previously knew nothing about. This large property had been

Perhaps you've wondered why residential projects tend to look so similar to each other from year to year and neighborhood to neighborhood. Maybe you think it's laziness from the small pool of architects in town. Or perhaps you place it at the feet of the developers, who are just trying

We've been following incremental changes on the 2400 block of Coral St. between Hagert and Boston Streets in the last few years, as we've seen three new homes get built and some others get renovated. Just two properties remain vacant on this block, a City-owned property and a privately owned

We last visited the 2000 block of E. Letterly St. in the fall of 2015, telling you about several new townhomes that were in various stages of the construction process. Since that time, as you can probably guess, all of those homes are finished and sold, with prices ranging between

At least according to some random reviewer on Yelp, Luke's Bar at 2434 Cedar St. was the longest running bar under the same ownership in the neighborhood. A post on their Facebook page indicates that the bar closed its doors "until further notice" shortly after the new year. The 'For