In Hawthorne

It's been a few years since our last visit to the 1200 block of Carpenter Street, an unusual Hawthorne block in that the south side is covered entirely by a playground and the Hawthorne Cultural Center while the north side of this block is dominated by 1241 Carpenter Studios, a collection of

Over the course of the last year, an addition has sprouted on the building at 1334 Bainbridge St. and now it's extremely noticeable from South Broad Street. We're... not loving how it looks, at least at this point.New addition as viewed from S. Broad StreetWe actually covered this property once

We were surprised, back in the summer of 2012, to learn about a proposal for twenty-two homes on the 1300 blocks of Bainbridge and Kater Streets on a large parcel that had been used as a surface parking lot for a long time. Mostly, our surprise stemmed from the fact that

The 1200 blocks of Bainbridge and Kater have seen quite a bit of change in the last few years as new development has rolled into Hawthorne. On Bainbridge Street, a one-story plant store was demoed a couple years back and a condo building called Le Fleur arrived in its place,

Fitzwater Street is losing another church.In just the last handful of years, developers purchased the Metropolitan AME church at 20th & Fitzwater and the Mount Olive AME church at 19th & Fitzwater, demolishing both and replacing them with town homes. Located just north of Fitzwater on 12th Street, New Hope

Imagine this: A few months ago, you shelled out several hundred grand to buy a condo unit in a new building at 13th & South. And you were thrilled to do it. The building looks cooler than just about anything else getting built nearby. The location is outstanding, with Broad

A development on the northeast corner of Broad & Washington could be getting closer. At the very least, it looks like there's continued momentum as the months roll off the calendar. Remember, it was back in November of 2014 that we attended a community meeting to hear Bart Blatstein from

When we told you yesterday that the Fitzwater Church of God will soon get torn down, last summer's demolition of the nearby New Hope Temple Baptist Church came up, unsurprisingly. When we last checked in on that property at 711 S. 12th St., demolition was just getting underway. As you

It looks like Hawthorne is losing another church. Last week, a reader tipped us off about a demo permit at 1219 Fitzwater St., the Fitzwater Church of God.Demo notice on the churchYou may recall, this neighborhood lost a major church last year when the New Hope Baptist Church on 12th

Okay, raise your hand if you can remember back to when there was a KFC on the southeast corner of Broad & Bainbridge. We confess, we only vaguely remember those days, not so much because we weren't around, but more likely because the one-story building that once housed the business