In Grays Ferry

As we were triumphantly returning home from a successful trip to the new Fresh Grocer over the weekend, we spied a pile of bricks on the 2700 block of Federal Street, just off of Grays Ferry Avenue. We initially figured this to be the site of the (maybe) upcoming Marval

It's been a sorry state of affairs at the Grays Ferry Shopping Center for the last year or so. Ever since the Grays Ferry Pathmark closed its doors at the end of 2015, the shopping center, located on the 2800 block of Grays Ferry Avenue, has been sitting more vacant

In neighborhoods like Callowhill or West Poplar, it's not such a big deal to live near the viaduct since it's 1) no longer used by trains, and 2) turning into one what will be one of the coolest parks in Philadelphia. In Point Breeze and Grays Ferry, not so much.

We're gonna direct your attention all the way back to yesterday's post about how we recently noticed construction at the former Grays Ferry Pathmark because today we have an additional dimension to add to the conversation. You may recall, we weren't sure whether the construction activity signaled that a new tenant

The Grays Ferry Pathmark closed its doors last fall, creating a food desert in the neighborhood and a giant vacancy in the creatively named Grays Ferry Shopping Center. At the beginning of this year, we heard rumbings that Fresh Grocer would be taking over the Pathmark space but we haven't

While taking a stroll on the yet to-be-connected part of the Schuylkill River Trail in Forgotten Bottom, we noticed the unmistakable architecture of a modified building that we recognized from its renderings. Formerly named known as Penn's South Bank, Pennovation Works is currently a modest construction project on a relatively large

A reader recently directed our attention to some signs posted on a fence at 2717 Annin St., a property we actually told you about last fall. At that time, we had noticed some different signs on the little vacant lot, advertising that it was available for rent. The asking rate

Grays Ferry has seen some amount of redevelopment in the last few years, but most of it has been limited to the northern and eastern section of the neighborhood. That's why we were fairly shocked to hear from a reader that spotted zoning notices at a vacant lot at 3229

It's a sad state of affairs these days on Grays Ferry Avenue, with two shuttered supermarkets sitting across the street from each other. For those that don't remember, Bottom Dollar built a new building on Grays Ferry Avenue and opened in early 2014, but closed before the end of that

It seems like we check in on the Forgotten Bottom neighborhood every year or so, telling you about a new project in the works for this little neighborhood between Grays Ferry Avenue, the CSX tracks, and the Schuylkill River. But aside from the occasional rehab, nothing much seems to happen