In South Kensington

We were making our way through East Kensington the other day and as we approached the Front Street from Susquehanna, we spied some construction activity just on the other side of the El. The construction in question was taking place at 100 W. Susquehanna Ave., a mixed use building that's

We visited Good Spoon Soupery the other day for some curbside pickup and noticed some relatively recent demolition activity just a few doors down. Since this is what we do, we figured we'd investigate what happened at 1350 N. Front St., where a rather unexciting single family home once stood.Looking at

As North Front Street has evolved over the last half decade or so, different blocks have experienced the changes to a different extent. On the 1500 block, for example, the entire west side has gone from an industrial building to the mixed-use Oxford Mills, while the east side has seen an

We're not telling you anything you don't know when we say that South Kensington has changed dramatically over the last decade or so. Despite this neighborhood's close proximity to Northern Liberties, it languished for decades as it attempted to recover from significant disinvestment and an exodus of industry. Things really

In the last couple years, we covered two sizable projects in store for the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. You may recall, we told you about plans for a project called Avenue V on the southwest corner, including 146 apartments, 4 retail spaces, and 52 parking

1307 Germantown Ave. covers almost an acre in the southern section of South Kensington, but it's quite possible that it's never caught your eye. The sizable property has frontage on both Germantown Avenue and N. American Street, but neither side is especially notable, with corrugated metal fencing on the western side and some slightly

Around 2008, the four story building at 629 W. Girard Ave. was demolished. Well, that's not entirely true- it was only mostly demoed, if we're striving for accuracy. The upper floors of this long vacant structure certainly went away, but some elements of the first floor of the building remained for some

A few readers have reached out recently, wondering about some significant construction activity ongoing at 339 E. Lehigh Ave., which is where Lehigh hits Kensington Avenue and the El. Incidentally, this intersection is also the beginning of a stretch of submerged Conrail tracks which were used as an encampment for

The Girard Theatre was located at 625 W. Girard Ave., opening to the public way back in the 1890s, and operating as a performance venue and later a cinema through the 1960s. The building was eventually converted into a supermarket and all of the facade details that suggested that the place

175 W. Oxford St. is a large parcel bordered by 2nd Street, Hancock Street, Turner Street, and Oxford Street which covers just shy of 60K sqft. The property is less defined by what's there- a 2 story building that was originally built for industrial use- as it is defined by the fact