In Temple Area

In the last year, we've covered some fairly significant additions to Cecil B Moore Avenue near Temple. At 19th & Cecil B, next door to a church that was once a cinema, eight units were built recently, with an unfortunate stucco-coated facade. Just a block to the east, twenty units

We were up near Temple the other day, and a vacant building caught our eye and not for the first time. Located on the northwest corner of Broad & Jefferson, just on the edge of Temple's campus, this building sticks out like a sore thumb. Architecturally, it's wonderful, and you

About a week ago, we found ourselves on the corner of 16th & Montgomery, and noted that a mural (with a lousy message for kids) appeared to be on the outs, as it was surrounded by a construction fence. Just to the north, we spotted a collection of still-under-construction multi-unit

Every now and then, despite our best efforts, we don't get the facts right. And usually in such cases, we find the need to come clean, eventually. Which is what we're doing right now. Back in March, we told you about three new quadplexes that were about to go up

We were killing time yesterday before heading to a ZBA hearing, and decided to take a quick jaunt to the neighborhood near Temple to see if we could spot anything interesting. Probably the most noteworthy thing we noticed was at 1534 N. 16th St., a large old building that's undergoing

Weeks ago, we wondered whether a former factory at 8th & Jefferson could represent an opportunity for future redevelopment. Though the site is only a half a dozen blocks away from Temple University, and just a couple of blocks south of the still-under-construction Paseo Verde project, it still has significant limitations in

Yesterday, we told you about Soko Lofts, a rather larger (three-hundred-plus units!) mixed-use development planned for the corner of 2nd & Thompson. Today, we have some preliminary info on a proposed project that should rise just a few blocks away.

At the intersection of 7th & Thompson, one immediately notices the

A few years ago, 17th & Page, just a couple of blocks from Temple's Main Campus, was pretty bleak. Sure, a few units were built near here back in 2008, but vacant land ruled the intersection for the most part.

The southern points of this intersection were (and remain) vacant as

If you've ever walked, driven, or biked around the northern end of Temple's campus, perhaps you've marveled at the beautiful and surprisingly intact architecture of Diamond Street. In an area that's seen more than its share of vacancy and blight in recent decades, many of the Victorian townhouses on Diamond

About a year ago, we checked in on the 1800 block of N 17th St., noting a series of new duplexes featuring shiny bay windows. A few months later, we checked back in on the same block, and told you about some more new construction on the block, this time