In South Kensington

In checking out two South Kensington sites last week, we stumbled onto 1300 N. Orianna St., a new construction single-family home. You may recall, last week we told you about plans for three-hundred-plus units at 2nd & Thompson, as well as the possibility of five new homes at the corner

This week, we've already told you about two projects coming to the South Kensington area, and today we have news about one more. The 1300 block of North Howard Street is currently a bit of a disaster. Heavy machinery has been doing demolition and clean-up work on the west side

Yesterday, we told you about Soko Lofts, a rather larger (three-hundred-plus units!) mixed-use development planned for the corner of 2nd & Thompson. Today, we have some preliminary info on a proposed project that should rise just a few blocks away.

At the intersection of 7th & Thompson, one immediately notices the

Last week, Philadelphia Business Journal broke the news that local developer Canus Corporation has big plans for a giant vacant lot at 2nd & Thompson, just a couple of blocks north of the Piazza. A former steel site, this lot measures about 2.5 acres and was originally tabbed by the

Almost a year ago, we told you about an ambitious project to transform an old Kensington warehouse that had most recently been home to a lamp design company. Consisting of two buildings at Front & Oxford, plans for the project involved a mix of residential, office, and retail uses with

Over a year ago, we told you that the folks from Indy Hall were teaming with the folks from Postgreen to establish a co-housing project at 1711 N. Howard St., just a few doors up the street from the First Steel homes. We were in that neck of the woods

We've probably passed by the intersection of N Howard St. and Cecil B. Moore Ave. dozens of times in the past, but we somehow never noticed that there's a building at this intersection that looks a lot like a castle without a moat. Have you seen this building before?

1625 N.

In recent years, the number of local coffee roasteries in Philadelphia has exploded. Chestnut Hill, One Village, Green Street, and L'Aube are just a few of the local roasters that have contributed to the evolving coffee scene in our fine town. Another local roaster, ReAnimator Coffee, recently moved to a new

Last week, we told you about a vacant lot on Thompson Street that was potentially getting twelve new residential units. Today, we have some info on a development a block away, just on the other side of the El, that's much further along.

Duplexellence is a new project at 110 W.

Nine months ago, we told you about the upcoming second phase of construction on the corner of 2nd & Oxford, where RPM Builders LP was about to add eighteen new apartments to a development that had just seen a dozen units constructed.

As you can see, this new effort features some