In South Kensington

South Kensington has experienced tremendous growth in the last few years, with small and large projects alike filling up vacant lots and replacing blighted buildings. Despite all this positive change, there's still a huge blighted building looming over the neighborhood, like Lurch on the Addams Family. The building at 5th

Last month, we made another trip to the 1400 block of Germantown Avenue and told you about ongoing demolition at 1400 Germantown Ave., a long vacant building that some commenters felt might have some historic relevance. Whether that's the case or not, the property is now gone and a vacant

Last week, we revisited the K'House project which was originally slated for the 1700 block of N. Howard Street but was delayed and eventually moved to Hope Street after the project was shot down by the ZBA. When we snapped those photos, we spied another seemingly new project in the

We've covered several significant residential proposals in South Kensington over the last few years but we're still waiting for most of them to materialize. So it's no small thing that the Tajdeed Residences project which we first told you about in March of 2014 is approaching the finish line. By

This is our third time reporting on the 1400 block of Germantown Avenue this year, and we're not ruling out making another visit before Old Lang Syne rings out across the world. In January, two homes were under construction, some old buildings were getting demolished, and a bunch of foundations

We're generally pleased to see development of all shapes and sizes, but it's particuarly satisfying when we see a delayed project finally moving forward. It was almost four years ago that we first told you about K'House, a teamup between Indy Hall and Postgreen to create the first cohousing project

The 1300 block of N. 6th St. is slowly transforming thanks to the work of different developers, all of whom are building residential projects. As recently as 2011, the block looked like this:Just a few years agoThat's a lot of vacant land, but compared to some other blocks nearby, it's

It was at the end of 2011 that we first brought your attention to seven homes, then new, at the corner of Mascher & Master in South Kensington. A developer with ties to Tower Investments, or maybe just a subsidiary, had demolished an old warehouse and had plans to build dozens of

The Paul Rabinowitz Glass Factory at 1401-15 N. American St., a building that sits across the street from Crane Arts, will soon get an earring of sorts, in the form of four new homes. The new units will face the alley-sized N. Philip St., replacing a large vacant lot on

We were in South Kensington the other day, scoping out some upcoming development, and the building at 1627 N. 2nd St. caught our eye. It captured our attention not because it's some new and exciting project, but instead because it looks like a large dragon took a bite out of