In Pennsport

The intersection of Moyamensing Avenue and Wharton Street is one of the more satisfying in Pennsport, with the unique looking Caffe Valentino on the northwest corner and the wonderful and still newish Pennsport Beer Boutique on the southwest corner. We were making a run to Target yesterday and passed this intersection,

A reader reached out to us about half a year ago, pointing out an interesting property at 126 Dickinson St. that was, at the time, listed for sale. Six months later, the property is still available. Still, the fact that it's a huge parcel in Pennsport gives us an indication

We've had our eye on the 100 block of Alter Street for many years, and for good reason. In the last decade or so, this little block with Washington Avenue views has seen ten new homes get built, with a bunch more constructed around the corner on 2nd Street and

The little lot at 108-110 Titan St. was easy to miss. It was so easy to miss, the Redevelopment Authority probably didn't think they'd face any opposition as they planned to sell it to developers back in 2012. But it turns out that a group of neighbors were in the early

Pennsport's Mount Sinai Hospital is almost entirely gone. The building had sat vacant for several years while different developers considered various reuse options for the large building at 4th & Reed, but it was the Concordia Group that, in the end, came up with a project for this site that involved demolishing

A reader tipped us off recently about 126-32 Dickinson St., a large Pennsport property that's currently available for sale. Passing by the property, you can see a two-story building and a fenced area on Dickinson Street and you'd never imagine that the property spans over a quarter of an acre.View

Neighbors across South Philly breathed a huge sigh of relief a few years ago when plans for a Foxwoods casino at 1401 S. Columbus Blvd. fell through. In the time since then, the lot has continued to sit vacant, and about a year ago we learned that Bart Blatstein had

We were meandering around the neighborhood earlier this week and happened upon some construction on the 400 block of Sigel Street, with the promise of more to come. For whatever reason several lots on this block have sat vacant for a number of years, but now the lots at 431

Ah Constitution Court, we can finally see the finish line. We first told you about this project on the northwest corner of 3rd & Reed almost three years ago, when we told you about plans to demolish the St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, a wonderful structure built in the 1890s. We

Over the summer, we visited the Mount Sinai Hospital site at 4th & Reed and speculated that development was finally on the way after years of vacancy and several proposals that never came to pass. In contrast to earlier plans from other developers, the Concordia Group was looking to demolish the empty