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We've gotten regular emails over the last couple months from people wondering about 1807 Washington Ave., a building that's been under construction for quite some time and has a liquor license posting in the window. In its previous life, the building was home to a restaurant called Tasty Asia which

2017 could be the year that the western side of Washington Avenue finally starts to take off. Within the last couple of months, we've seen dirt start moving at the long vacant northwest corner of Broad & Washington, in anticipation of the Lincoln Square project. Ten blocks to the west,

Just up the street from our office, we recently noticed a new foundation at the northeast corner of 20th & Kimball. Since we pass by this intersection just about every day, we don't typically think about the changes that have happened here over the last number of years, but seeing

We've been following the project at 810 S. 21st St. for about a year and a half, since the developers first presented plans for a home on this 19' x 18' lot to the SOSNA zoning committee. Back then, we informed you that this parcel was not, as you might

For a block that's a bit off the beaten path, we sure have visited the 2500 block of Montrose Street a bunch of times over the years. It was back in 2011 that we first brought you to this block to tell you about plans for a project called Montrose

The W.S. Peirce School, located at 2400 Christian St., was built in 1928-29 and designed by Irwin T. Catharine in the Late Gothic Revival-style. Catharine, who wasn't the namesake for Catharine Street despite the spelling of his name, was the chief architect for Philadelphia public schools in the 1920s and 30s and

If you try to travel down 24th Street this week, south of South Street, you will run into a bit of a problem. And by a problem, we mean a massive crane lifting pods onto a steel-framed structure at the corner of 24th & Bainbridge.Looking down 24th StreetThe project in

Turning back the clock a couple of decades, the Graduate Hospital neighborhood had well over a thousand vacant lots and buildings literally littering the area. The 2100 block of Carpenter Street was among the worst in the neighborhood. In 2004, at least thirty out of forty-seven properties on the block were

We hit a bit of a lull in terms of interesting projects going to Civic Design Review at one point earlier this year, but recent agendas have produced a goldmine of information for upcoming major projects. Thanks to CDR, in recent days we've passed along renderings for the Edward Corner

We keep waiting for the first domino to fall on the western side of Washington Avenue, and it now seems possible that 2501 Washington Ave. could be the first. The property is vacant today, but big things are coming. Probably.Current viewWe've covered this property a few times previously, first back