In Temple Area

The other day, we were running errands pretty far north. Far enough north in fact, that we passed Botany 500, the Traylor Building, and the North Philadelphia train station and thought to ourselves -- not for the first time -- that the whole area oozed untapped potential. And then, a

We keep noticing something strange whenever we find ourselves on Diamond Street just beyond Temple’s campus. While the rest of the blocks in this part of town are absolutely littered with shiny new by-right walk-up plexes rented by the room to students, Diamond Street seems to be stuck in place

The other day, we found ourselves up around Temple again, eating a delicious lunch at Champ’s Diner and wondering what’s next for the neighborhood. Working off some of those calories, we turned onto 18th Street from Cecil B. Moore Avenue and there we saw a pair of new triplexes under

Someone recently told us about some loft developments on the 1300 block of Cumberland Street. Given the amount of development happening in East Kensington, we immediately assumed that they meant that something was happening in that neighborhood- only there's no such thing as the 1300 block of E. Cumberland Street.

Much like what we had guessed when the university tore down some disused and decrepit former student housing over the summer, Temple is indeed seriously considering a new football stadium in the northwestern section of campus. The school's formal announcement of their plan came several weeks ago during the runup

It's really not fair to single out one blighted property in the neighborhoods surrounding Temple. Despite the impressive number of projects in the area in recent years, there are still too many blighted buildings and vacant lots for us to count. So why, of all the vacant buildings in this

We visited the 1300 block of N. Carlisle St. a couple years ago and lamented the poor condition of the block. Back then, the block was overrun with empty lots and there were only two buildings with Carlisle Street addresses. One of those "buildings" was a shanty surrounding by 'No

The other day, after a visit to Brewerytown, we were taking College Ave. to get across town and noticed some blight at 2221 N. College Ave., a triangular property that's formed by the intersection with W. Thompson Street. Surely, this building was once a very interesting structure, given the unique

Last summer, a reader wondered about the influx of tiny medians on North Broad Street between Hamilton Street and Glenwood Avenue and we quickly got to the bottom of the situation. It turns out the City was installing a series of fifty-plus-foot tall light masts on North Broad Street and

In the area surrounding Temple University, we've seen so much new construction, almost exclusively of the student housing variety. When we say "almost exclusively," that does leave a little room for construction that doesn't target the large group of transient renters looking to make the best time of their four