In Rittenhouse

Over the summer, we told you about plans to demolish a collection of apartment buildings on the corner of 19th & Lombard and to replace them with ten new luxury homes. The same developers who built the ultra-high-end Lombard Estates on the 1800 block of Lombard had similar plans for

Last summer, the historic mansion at 1801 Walnut St. went up for sale, and there was speculation that long-time tenant Anthropologie could be on the outs. When we heard about this, we wondered 1) what new location could possibly serve the store's needs as effectively as their current home, and 2)

Over the last couple of weeks, we've been clued in by several readers that Burberry, located at 1705 Walnut St., will be closing their doors. While lots of businesses have closed on Walnut Street, only to appear at another location in town, it seems that Burberry is going away and

Last week, a reader asked us whether we'd heard anything about the closed-down Qdoba on the southwest corner of 19th & Chestnut. We weren't aware that the long-time lunch spot had closed, but sure enough when we went by the other day we saw paper in the windows.No more burritos

Perhaps you've wondered about why you've never seen anyone coming or going from the PHA building on the 2000 block of Chestnut Street. Well, pretty soon you'll have to wonder no more. Because if we had to wager, we would bet that the building will be torn down in the

It's been almost two years since we've last thought about 2017-23 Chestnut St., a building that's sat vacant since 1991. When we last checked in on the former YWCA annex, we brought you the wonderful news that the PRA was finally selling the property to Aquinas Realty Partners for a price of

It was over a year ago that we last checked in on the parking lot on the northeast corner of 15th & Chestnut. At that time, we told you that previous plans for a Waldorf Astoria Hotel had faded into the ether and that instead a W Hotel was planned for this location.

A couple of readers have emailed us in recent days, asking if we'd heard anything about the demolition ongoing at the southwest corner of 20th & Waverly. We tried to do a little research into what was going on at 2001 Waverly St. and only after checking in with the

About a year and a half ago, we first told you about plans from Pearl Properties to construct a new building on a surface parking lot on the 1600 block of Sansom Street. The north side of this block was basically ruined by Sam Rappaport, and then demolished in the

Perhaps a million years ago, we spent some time working on the 1500 block of Sansom Street. Back in those days, we came to deeply appreciate all the goodies at our fingertips on that block. Nodding Head was a frequent lunch spot, and Oscar's was a regular (and smoky) haunt