In Passyunk Square

About a year and a half ago, we told you that 1200 Washington Ave. was available for sale for $1.2M and encouraged anyone and everyone to step forward and buy it. This property, which sits next door to our car wash of choice and around the corner from Nam Phuong, has

1352-56 E. Passyunk Ave. seems like a winning location but it's been vacant for about a year and a half, if memory serves. A Rita's franchise occupied this space for roughly half a dozen years, and we vaguely remember when Nifty Fifty's had a nice run here. And we recall

We've been waiting for South Broad Street to take a big step forward for years, but to date, progress has been fairly incremental. Sure, there have been changes, like the reopening of the Broad Street Diner, the reawakening of long-shuttered Boot & Saddle, and the slow-moving construction of the armory apartments.

We love a good development opportunity. And whenever a sign asserts such a thing, we feel it's our obligation to check it out and pass it along, unless of course it's so good that we take it ourselves. So, uh, don't let that be a spoiler alert for what follows.From

We don't usually rush to tell you about individual listings, and it hardly ever happens for properties that aren't listed by the company that owns this site. But when a colleague passed along the listing for 1010 Tasker St. the other day, we felt compelled to blast the listing far

When we visited the 600 block of Federal Street earlier this week to find out about what's happening at the former Federal Pretzel Baking Company building, we certainly didn't expect that we'd be coming back here so quickly. Alas, the story sparked the curiosity of one of our readers, who

Heraclitus got it right when he said that the only constant is change. In Center City, we see change all the time. Buildings rise and fall, businesses come and go, people are constantly hustling from one place to another. In some parts of South Philly, change generally comes more slowly,

Remember the old American Ice and Coal warehouse at 9th & Washington? For years, we dreamed about someone turning this vacant monstrosity into some kind of mixed-use gem, lifting up the southern section of the Italian Market. Instead, it got demolished back in 2008 and we've had a vacant lot

You've probably never visited the 1200 block of Annin Street. It's a skinny block that looks like it dead-ends at its western end (but there's actually a narrow path out to Federal Street). Architecturally, it's a very mixed bag, with a row of newer-looking garage-front homes with driveways, a couple

We first brought a blighted building at 1221 S. Broad St., a former armory, to your attention back in the summer of 2011, when plans to build a four-story mixed-use building threatened to cover a mural of what looked like a zombified Frank Sinatra. The old armory was constructed in