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It was just yesterday that we told you about plans to redevelop the northwest corner of Front & Oxford, a project that would provide a worthwhile companion to Oxford Mills on the southwest corner of the same intersection. This property is currently a collection of warehouses that have been used for industrial purposes

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Traveling down Front Street the other day, a sign caught our eye on the building at 1600 N. Front St. offering it up as a development opportunity. When we snapped a photo of the building and the aforementioned sign, we figured we'd share that the property is listed for sale and recommend

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We were making out way into South Kensington the other day, and happened to spy a 'For Sale' sign on a building at the awkward intersection of Germantown Avenue and Thompson Street. Back in 2012, we wrote about a couple of properties at this intersection, noting that the vacant building at 1301-03

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South Kensington has seen all kinds of development over the last few years, and as we told you earlier this week, there are some pretty significant projects still in the pipeline. Through it all, the former Gretz Brewery at 1524 Germantown Ave. has been sitting vacant and blighted, a reminder of what so

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Yesterday, we told you about plans for a sizable development for a vacant parcel at 5th & Cecil B. Moore, but the zoning application was a bit confusing and even so we had no details on the exact plan for the site. Seeing our story, a couple of readers, including the

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1620 N. 5th St. is a huge vacant lot that, as you might guess from its South Kensington location, has some serious industrial history. Turning back the clock, the parcel has had many uses over the years, with occupants including a lumber yard, a printing company, a mill, a stone yard,

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Back in March, we visited N. 2nd St. just below Cecil B. Moore Avenue, providing updates on a couple of projects on the west side of the block. At 1638 and 1640 N. 2nd St., developers were initially building a pair of mixed-use buildings, but decided to pivot during the construction process.

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We were scanning the zoning calendar as we often do, and an address caught our eye for reasons we couldn't quite determine in the moment. Why did 501 W. Norris St. give us pause? It didn't take more than a few seconds of research to connect the dots, as we quickly realized that the

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Front Street's upswing is continuing, as a reader recently tipped us off about plans to redevelop yet another vacant lot on this long dormant corridor. There's a zoning notice posted at 1308-10 N. Front St., a 4,000 sqft parcel that goes all the way back to Hope Street and has been

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The 1200 block of N. 7th St. is very much on the upswing. We've covered a couple different projects on the west side of this block, with a quartet of homes and a mixed use building appearing at the corner, along with a row of six triplexes just south of the corner. Both

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