In South Kensington

Last week, we gave you a brief update that the affordable housing development in Norris Square, at the Saint Boniface site, was finally moving along, with foundations prepared for seven new homes. In that story, we also suggested that the ten home project on Susquehanna St. that we had previously

Members of the Norris Square Civic Association and Councilwoman Quinones Sanchez have resolved their differences regarding the St. Boniface Development, at least formally.

Instead of building 15 multi-family units on the site of the former church, located at Diamond and Hancock Streets, seven single-family homes will be constructed on the site of the demolished church, according to Sanchez.

At the five-point intersection of N 3rd St., Germantown Ave., and Thompson Sts. stand the Flats at Girard Pointe, a multi-unit housing development built by JDT International, the same folks who buit the Flatz@2015. Not only are these homes notable for their location and architecture, but also for the urban topiary

Though commonly known as the commercial thoroughfare in Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill, Germantown Avenue actually begins in Northern Liberties, running between the two Piazza complexes. Traveling just a couple of blocks to the north, Germantown Ave. transforms completely, with vacant land and several blighted buildings on either side of

We got an email from a helpful reader the other day, with some interesting news for a rough-looking building on Girard Avenue. Across the street from a BP station, 527 W. Girard Ave. has clearly seen better days. Home to a theatre of some kind in the past, and before

Recently, Levi Netanel went before the ZBA with a plan to build two triplexes at 1307-09 N 6th St., currently vacant lots. Both lots are currently owned by City agencies, but we'd imagine the developer has them under agreement, or he wouldn't be going through the zoning grind.

Though these lots

Last week, a large, vacant warehouse located at 1835-61 E. Madison St., collapsed. Located paces away from Kensington Avenue and on a block with primarily two-story homes, this event surely spooked the neighbors when the large building came tumbling to the ground last Wednesday afternoon. And it's a real shame,

Developer Birds Eye Development has a project coming to 1206-08 N 7th St., on a kind of dodgy block just north of Girard Avenue. Currently, these addresses include a large vacant lot and a large vacant shell.

According to the zoning application, the plan for this location is to rehab the

We were 4th Street the other day, just north of Girard Avenue, and realized that a ton of development activity is taking place on this block. What brought us here is the upcoming construction of two homes at 1214 N 4th St., which we noticed on today's zoning docket.

According to

We saw a guy working on a red stucco building on the southeast corner of 2nd & Master the other day, and figured there may be something going on at this location in the near future. Looking more closely, we noticed a couple of building permits posted on one of