In Passyunk Square

Almost exactly one year ago, we brought 1843-45 E Passyunk Ave. to your attention, noting that the iconic home of King of Jeans was on the market for $800K. There's been a bit of chatter about this building in the last few months, with a potential developer flirting with the

A year ago, we told you about an affordable senior housing development planned for a large lot on the 900 block of Ellsworth Street, next to the Italian Market. At the time, the 22,000 sqft lot was (barely) in use as a parking lot.

In the spring, developer St. Maron’s CDC

A couple of weeks ago, the Philadelphia Business Journal reported on a proposed retail project for the southeast corner of 9th & Washington, a mostly vacant lot that formerly contained a warehouse structure for the American Ice Company. Part of this warehouse was torn down years ago and replaced by

If there’s any spot in Philadelphia that’s ripe for haunting, it’s the Capitolo Playground.

As we mentioned a few weeks ago in our post on the Palumbo Recreation Center, Philadelphia has a long and inglorious history of loose interpretation where the term ‘final resting place’ is concerned.  The frequently used Capitolo Playground, bound by 9th,

A couple of weeks ago, we brought a new, nearly complete mixed-use building at 12th and Latona Sts. to your attention, mentioning the beginnings of interior demolition work at the large, vacant warehouse next door. This will be the site of the second, much larger phase of this development, which

We've brought a couple of projects to your attention from the people at  Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation in the past. Most recently, we gave you heads up about a property across from the singing fountain that's still in the process of being redone. Previously, we pointed out a couple of other PARC-driven

The Acme supermarket occupying the space between Passyunk, Reed, 10th & 11th Streets, is certainly a neighborhood institution.  But for nearly a century-and-a-half, this plot was occupied by an actual institution; the Moyamensing Prison.

According to the marker dedicated by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission just last year, the prison was constructed in 1835

Last year, we told you about a confusing building under construction at 1233 S Broad St., covering up a mural of "zombie" Frank Sinatra and immediately next door to a Lukoil station. Here's a shot of the building under construction:

Three condo units have been on the market for a couple

Rosa Court, a seventeen home development on the 1300 block of Federal St., has always mystified us. Built about five years ago and designed by Landmark Architectural Design, these homes stick out big-time in an area that has relatively little one-off new construction activity, let alone new developments of this

Last summer, we told you about a proposed large development at 12th and Latona Sts. where a once-handsome warehouse has become considerably less attractive over the years.

Over the past months, construction has taken place at 1216 S. 12th St., the previously vacant lot just to the south of the warehouse.