In Spring Garden

If you've never visited Prohibition Taproom at 13th & Buttonwood, you're surely missing out on a great neighborhood pub experience. And if you wish to visit this gem of a bar in the coming weeks or months, you'll surely notice that there are at least three construction projects taking place

For years, 2026 Fairmount Ave. was a source of blight, slowly collapsing next door to the Fairmount Pet Shoppe. Over a number of years, the owners slowly fixed up the building, with the property apparently changing hands in 2010, midway through the lengthy renovation. We last checked in on this

We stumbled upon some new construction the other day, on a block we've visited several times in the last couple of years. Back in 2009, the 1200 block of Mount Vernon Street looked like this:

After three projects filled in some of the vacant space on this block, the largest remaining

Last fall, we told you that developer Eric Blumenfeld had purchased the historic yet blighted Divine Lorraine, ostensibly with plans for a mixed-use renovation for the building. At the time, rumor had it that Marc Vetri was in discussions with Blumenfeld about opening a restaurant on the ground floor of

In the fall, we told you about 1221 Mount Vernon St., a large parcel on the western side of the "Spring Arts" neighborhood that was on the market for a mere $1.8M. At the time, we wondered whether a developer would step forward and possibly look toward an adaptive reuse

The Loonstyn family is on a development tear. Loonstyn Properties and MJL Properties, both owned by members of the Loonstyn family, have embarked on projects large and small in the last few years in the Francisville, Fairmount, and Spring Garden neighborhoods. Recently, Loonstyn Properties acquired two historic Victorian homes in

Though the Spring Garden neighborhood has experienced tremendous improvement in the past two decades, a handful of blighted properties remain. Take, for instance, 1516 Green St., a property right near the Chapel Lofts, which surprised us when we passed by on an unseasonably warm afternoon this past weekend.

From what we understand, AHA

Now that attempts to transform a large vacant Spring Garden Street building into a single family home have petered out, a proposal is on the table for the site to become a daycare center. The other day, we spotted an orange zoning application in the window of 2225 Spring Garden

Last summer, we told you about plans from Carmel Development to build a four story residential building at 1241 Buttonwood St., next door to Prohibition Taproom. We were in the area last week, and noticed that foundations are going in, so we figured this would be a good time for an update...

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A hot area that we seem to come back to every week or so lies between 10th and Broad, Spring Garden and Fairmount. Some have coined this the "Spring Arts" area, while others are content to call it Poplar, and still others insist that it's an extension of the Spring