In South Philly

The complex of parking lots and buildings running parallel to Columbus Boulevard, and contained loosely by Moore, Oregon and Water Streets, offers an array of big box mega-stores to give any suburban retail archipelago a run for its money.  The Pennsport brand-name shopping Mecca boasts one of the city’s three five Target locations,

Last summer, we told you about Philly Live!, the entertainment complex being built down by the stadiums, next to where the Spectrum once stood. At the time, construction had just begun, and the anticipated completion date was April 5th, opening day for our beloved Phillies.

Amazingly, the construction process for this

One of our readers emailed us, and asked us what we knew about the empty factory at 1201 Jackson St., in South Philly. Apparently, some work has been going on in this building, though this has stopped in recent weeks. We trekked down there this weekend to investigate.

The building was

You may remember last week, when we mentioned a new bowling/batting cage/bar/restaurant concept on the way on Oregon Ave., in South Philly. In that same neck of the woods, we noticed a zoning notice on a boarded up building, just to the west of I-95.

The application is for a take-out

A reader tipped us off about a zoning notice in front of a warehouse at 19 E. Oregon Ave., just to the east of I-95.

Thomas Colace Co. is a company that processes and distributes fruits and vegetables to food service businesses. They moved from this huge warehouse to Jersey a

On Sunday, November 6th, PAWS will host the 5th annual Mutt Strut in FDR Park at 1900 Pattison Ave. Participants in the event will walk a 1.5 mile route through beautiful FDR Park to raise money for and awareness of Philadelphia's unwanted and abandoned animals. Participants will be required to

Do you love meatballs?

If so, today might be the best day of your life.

On Sunday, from 4pm til 6pm, the American Swedish Museum at 1900 Pattison Ave. is hosting the second annual Great Meatball Match-Up. At the event, local restaurants and amateur meatball-ogists will be presenting their wares to lucky

The Sesquicentennial International Exposition (insert Waiting for Guffman reference here) was sort of the sequel to the highly lauded Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Compared to the original, this world's fair was rather pathetic. The turnout was poor, the weather was worse, and by the end, it was considered a complete

The last time we checked in with the South Philly Food Co-op, they were just getting off the ground with a neighborhood community forum and surveys. Now they're incorporated and are hosting various events throughout South Philly to raise awareness and raise funds for the initiative, and trying to get

Philly Live!, a 300K plus sqft. entertainment complex, will sit on the site of the former Spectrum, between Citizens Bank Park and the Wells Fargo Center. It was first announced over three years ago, when the above rendering was produced, without a clear start-time or expected completion date. As we