In Washington Square West

Wills Eye Hospital has owned the buildings at 229 and 231 S. 9th St. for decades, along with several additional buildings moving north on the block. Wills Eye is a great hospital with a wonderful reputation, and as such, you'd think that they'd do a decent job of maintaining their real estate

Dranoff Properties has built several significant mixed-use projects on South Broad over the last decade plus, including Symphony House, 777 South Broad, and Southstar Lofts. And as we've told you previously, this company has at least two more major projects in the queue for this corridor. Most recently, we told you about

12th Street Gym has been a fixture in the Gayborhood for roughly 30 years, but an ownership change and fire code violations could result in its closure at some point in the relatively near future. A couple of readers have reached out to us in recent weeks, sharing the news

The northeast corner of 9th & Locust is a bit of a curiosity. In this high rent part of town, you simply wouldn't expect to see a pair of building like 229 and 231 S. 9th St., slowly decomposing as they sit vacant. Last year, we gave you the lowdown on

Remember last week, when we told you about an upcoming Washington Square West Civic Association zoning meeting where they were going to hear about a new condo tower planned for the northeast corner of Broad & Pine? At the time that we shared this information, we provided some of the basic details about the

Dranoff Properties has played a significant role in redeveloping South Broad Street over the last decade, with Symphony House, 777 South Broad, and Southstar Lofts all adding height and density to Philadelphia's most famous thoroughfare. Tonight, near neighbors will learn about another proposed Dranoff project, this time at the corner of

Somehow, it's been well over a year since we last checked in on the northeast corner of Broad & Locust. And as you can imagine, things are looking quite different there since our last visit. Back then, we told you that Pearl Properties had purchased a two low rise structures at the corner and a

In a bit of an odd turn for a controversial project, it seems like Toll Brothers is reducing the height of the condo building they're planning to build on Jewelers Row. A reminder, last summer Toll Brothers came out with a plan to demolish the buildings at 702-10 Sansom St. and replace them with

The Parker Spruce, at the northeast corner of 13th & Spruce, was built as a "bachelor hotel" in the 1920s, but as the decades wore on, it transitioned to a seedy hotel of ill repute. A Philadelphia Weekly writer spent a night there in 2006 and found the accommodations to

The controversy sparked by a Toll Brothers plan to demolish a row of buildings on the eastern side of Jewelers Row could encourage a different developer to move forward more aggressively with another development on this corridor. In case you haven't been following the saga, Toll Brothers owns 702-710 Sansom