In South Kensington

You might not realize it, but pallets are a big business. Wanna ship something large and heavy? It's probably going on a pallet. Wanna ship a bunch of smaller things? Again, it's pallet time. But where do all those pallets come from? In some cases, the pallets come from Pallets

Slowly but surely, we're continuing to see development creep northward in South Kensington. Just the other day, for example, we told you about three homes under construction on the rarely explored 500 block of Morse Street. Today, please allow us to draw your gaze to a large vacant lot right

We were meandering around South Kensington the other day, and as we were traveling on the 500 block of Montgomery Avenue, some construction construction caught our eye on a nearby block. This construction is taking place on the 500 block of Morse Street, a block that we bet you'd struggle to

Germantown Avenue in South Kensington has experienced tremendous change over the last several years, with the 1400 block seeing the bulk of the construction activity. And as we've told you previously, there's still more to come for that block, with the most notable projects being an adaptive reuse that will

It was almost a year ago that we drew your gaze to the northeast corner of 8th & Thompson, noting plans for a large residential development with 71 units on a parcel that was being used as a surface parking lot. Initially, we considered the possibility that this would be

It was back in May that we drew your gaze to the southwest corner of Hancock & Thompson, where developers were working on an eight-unit condo building. We were shocked though, because every unit was under agreement even though the building was still months away from completion. We now see

We just told you about a possible Trader Joe's coming to Leithgow & Bainbridge, and now we're going to look a couple miles due north, to the corner of Leithgow & Thompson. This property has been sitting vacant for a number of years, even as South Kensington has experienced a dramatic

The north side of the 700 block of Lehigh Avenue is home to a suburban style shopping center with a Save-a-Lot, a Family Dollar, a Kicks USA, and a Burger King. Generally, we wouldn't care for such a shopping center, as we prefer smaller businesses that are integrated into the

It was a little over a month ago that we checked in on Liberty Square, the major mixed-use project that's under construction on the property bounded by Germantown Avenue, Thompson Street, and N. American Street. This project, from Blackstone Development, first starting coming together back in 2013, but construction only got started last fall.

The 1700 block of N. Bodine Street is pretty rough. The western side of the street has two homes, and the rest of the properties on that side of the street are seemingly used as rear yard space for homes on 3rd Street. The east side of the block is