In Temple Area

Philadelphia used to be a home to a thriving industrial economy. Many factories that once buzzed with the work of daily life in Kensington, Old City, or the loft district are now apartments, transformed by developers with an eye toward the city's history.

A building that has yet to be transformed

As any Temple student or regular reader of this site is well aware, there's been a tremendous amount of new development in the area surrounding Temple in the last several years. So when we spotted a ZBA notice for a new development at 1901 N. 19th St., we figured it

Last week, we looked at a couple of items of interest on Carlisle Street, a side street that lies immediately to the west of Broad. First, we looked at some blight on the 1300 block, purchased from the PRA ten years ago but never developed. Then, we considered the lack

Yesterday, we noted some long-vacant properties on the on the 1300 block of N. Carlisle St., just a few blocks from Temple's campus. Today, we look just a block and a half to the south, to revisit a project we first told you about last spring. At that time, we

It seems that every few weeks, we have a new development to tell you about in the neighborhood surrounding Temple University. Today, we have the opposite, a stark reminder of what several of these blocks looked like just a few years ago. The 1300 block of Carlisle St. is entirely

Along North Broad Street, things are looking better than they have in decades, and more changes are coming. There’s construction near Temple, numerous condo and apartment conversions, and the award-winning Osteria. It’s as if Broad Street blight, once as rampant as morning traffic, has become a Broad Street boom.

The west side of the 800

For many Temple students, Broad and Cecil B represents their first look at campus in the morning and their last look at campus in the evening as they arrive and depart on the Broad Street Line. This intersection, home to the school's book store, the Shops at Avenue North, and

Right before school got started last semester, we told you about the nearly completed project at 1844 N 18th St., a few blocks away from Temple. Not only does the building have some of the more satisfying architectural elements among the new structures in the neighborhood, but it also includes

We were heading through Francisville on 18th Street and spotted what looked like some new construction a couple blocks north of Girard. When we came in to get a closer look, it turned out to be an addition to an existing building rather than a completely new structure.

As you can

While we may seem agog to share all the news about new student housing developments in the vicinity of Temple University, this is mostly because student housing is virtually all that's going up in the area. But Paseo Verde, a project we first told you about over the summer, is