In Pennsport

It was about a year ago that we last checked in on the former Abigail Vare school at 1619 E. Moyamensing Ave., a visit that came four years after the school closed its doors and three years after the School District sold the building to the Concordia Group. As we

Living close to downtown Philadelphia presents a variety of tradeoffs. Sure, you can easily walk into Center City for the purposes of work or play. Then again, demand is higher for housing in the neighborhoods closest to downtown, which usually means higher costs and less space. And since land is at such a

Mount Sinai Hospital occupied almost an entire square block at 4th & Reed, which made it especially troubling for the surrounding neighborhood when the hospital closed its doors in 1997. Since then, the hospital sat vacant and unused, with the exception of a section on the western end of the

The 100 block of Ellsworth Street is not your standard South Philly block. In most areas in this part of town, the housing stock dates back at least a hundred years. For whatever reason though, only about a quarter of the homes on this block fit that description. The homes on the

For about half a decade, the Industry Bar held down the southeast corner of Moyamensing Avenue and Reed Street, occupying a double-wide, one story building in bustling Pennsport. The Industry was a great spot, not only providing tasty food and drink to folks in the neighborhood, but also serving as

Most people would agree that a large casino would have been a pretty terrible use for the large tract of land on Columbus Blvd. between Reed and Tasker Streets. And thankfully, after years of legal challenges and community pushback, the ill advised Foxwoods project fell through in 2010. The site

When a reader tipped us off about a five-home project on the 500 block of Hoffman Street a couple years back, we're embarrassed to say that we didn't even know where to find the street on the map. Through the power of a quick internet search though, we discovered that

For a rather run of the mill block in Pennsport, we've spilled considerable a considerable quantity of e-ink about the 200 block of Tasker Street. Over the years, we've told you about a new mansion on the block, plans for a sizable residential development that hasn't happened yet, and a

The new Target locations in town certainly make life easier, but every now and then we need to make a run to the big Target in South Philly. It was on our way back from such a run that we spied some relatively recently cleared real estate on Front Street,

It wasn't so long ago that the section of Pennsport immediately surrounding Dickinson Square Park was a little on the dicey side, with several blighted buildings and vacant lots on the blocks immediately to the north and west of the park. Virtually all of those properties have been redeveloped over the last