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For as long as we can remember, we've been banging the drum about Washington Avenue, dreaming of a remapping of this underused corridor. Especially west of Broad Street, Washington Avenue was once such a significant industrial corridor that it was home to coal yards, lumber yards, and a smelting plant.

The saga continues at the northwest corner of 16th & Washington. Let's look back to... good Lord, ELEVEN YEARS AGO, when there was a proposal for the superman-logo-shaped property at 1601 Washington Ave. for a mixed-use building with 35 units over commercial. This project got a zoning variance, but the

We've told you in the past, but we'll remind you anyway: CHOP wasn't always located in West Philadelphia. The move to its current location happened only fifty years ago; and for an organization that dates back to 1866, that's only about 30% of its history spent on the other side

If you lived in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood at any point before 2018, then you've surely heard of the Chocolate Factory on Washington Avenue. This property, covering a whole city block at 2101 Washington Ave., was known as such because Frankford Candy, the largest marketer of licensed confections and gifts in the

We admit it: we like the cold. There is something incredibly invigorating about feeling an icy wind whipping across snowbanks, all while overlooking a frosty riverfront. It's certainly not for everyone, but it can lead to some wonderful and beautiful moments, as solitude is much easier to find in the

Oh, Philadelphia, a place where you couldn't avoid history if you tried. Let's take for example what we assumed to be a fairly mundane situation: while making our way across town, we spied new construction happening at 1712 Christian St. and decided to make a pitstop to check it out.To

Waaaaay back in 2011, we asked you to take a gander at 1731 Washington Ave., a stubby industrial building that was home to a commercial window and door business. At the time, we were extremely excited to share the news that the building would get demoed and replaced by a

We've been harping about Washington Avenue for over a decade, dreaming about its potential while lamenting just how much of that potential remains untapped. Don't get us wrong - the corridor has come a long way over the course of those years, with several new mixed-use buildings rising and new

At 2401 Washington Ave., beauty isn't exactly something that pops to mind at first blush. For over a century, the corner has looked a bit rough, with a dilapidated wood structure from the early 1900's giving way to a surface lot that saw little but piles of trash. There are

Boy oh boy, has Washington Avenue undergone some changes over the last few years. With projects popping up all over the place and the newly paved (and partially safer) roads, the industrial-heavy past is slowly making a sharp turn toward a mixed-use future. One place where this change is very