In Spring Garden

About a year and a half ago, a store called Momoyo opened at the corner of 20th & Brandywine, specializing in bubble tea, fro yo, and oddly, dog treats. Then the business got closed down, ostensibly due to a zoning problem. They reopened in the spring, and installed some funky

Last year, a new mixed-use building appeared on the corner of 19th & Fairmount, replacing a long vacant lot and covering a mural of Noam Chomsky. And while some neighbors may miss the public art, their sorrows are at least partially drowned by the presence of the wonderful Tela's Market

On Green Street in the Spring Garden neighborhood, it's a common sight to see former mansions converted into apartment buildings. In recent years, a couple of former churches have also gone through this transformation. To this point, though, we don't believe it's happened to any former convents. But that's exactly

Yesterday a couple of readers gave us a shout, suggesting that construction had gotten underway on a new project at 16th & Fairmount. First, we wondered (with fingers crossed) whether the one-story restaurant on the corner was being demolished and replaced. Then we wondered (also with great hope) whether the

A little over a year ago, we brought the blighted 1516 Green St. to your attention. We told about how this building, located next to the Chapel Lofts, became blighted over the years as it was owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. And we expressed hope that it could be

While it's a bit of a slow train coming, redevelopment along North Broad Street, or at least plans for it, continue to surface. While it's still very early in the process, Loonstyn Properties, which has become a major developer in the area over the past few years, is currently under

Back in November, we told you that Momoyo at 20th & Brandywine was closed, possibly temporarily and perhaps forever. Last week, a reader told us that work being done to the storefront, and a retro sign had been revealed. We passed by the other day and saw the old sign,

Last summer, we told you that five new homes were coming to the 600 block of Sydenham St., which is part of an easy-to-miss nook in the Spring Garden neighborhood. We first visited this block in 2011, when a row of homes on the 1500 block of Melon Street were

We first visited 1538 Green St. in June of 2012 when it was still a surface parking lot. We came back to it as digging began for a new foundation. Last fall, a large new home was well underway, but still under construction. Today, the nearly 8,200 sqft home is just

Over two years ago, we first brought you the news that the Ruffin Nichols Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church at 11th & Mount Vernon had been purchased by developers. At that time, we suspected that this meant the end of the building, and we were right. About a year later, part