In West Philly

Market Street, as the name implies, has served as a commercial corridor in Philadelphia since the days of Billy Penn. Though plenty of residential and institutional uses exist on various blocks of Market Street, commercial or mixed-use are generally the norm. Going west from Front & Market, it takes until 39th Street

The triangular parcel at 5050 Baltimore Ave. has been vacant for as long as we can remember, having fallen into a state of decline along with many other properties along this section of the Baltimore Avenue corridor. But as we've shown you over the last several years, there have been several

If you've ever taken a trolley to or from West Philadelphia, you've likely passed through the 40th Street Trolley Portal, the location where the 11, the 13, the 34, and the 36 lines emerge from underground (or start their trip underground, depending on which way you're traveling). Roughly 5,000 people

We've been at this for a number of years, and have written thousands of posts about projects all over Philadelphia. With all that content, we sometimes lose track of whether we've previously covered a property or not. It gets especially frustrating when we find out about something happening with a property and

The corner of 40th & Walnut is officially the northwest edge of Penn's campus, but the reach of the university extends far beyond that intersection. Off-campus student housing has extended west of 40th Street for a long time, but it's only really been in the last decade or so that

Though it was sitting dormant for the last couple years, a sizable project on the 4400 blocks of Chestnut and Ludlow looks to be taking strides toward becoming a reality. It was back in 2015 that we first told you about plans from Orens Brothers for roughly 150 new apartments over

When Philadelphia implemented the new zoning code in 2012, many among us hoped that it would streamline a zoning process which had spiraled out of control thanks to the combination of an outdated code and inaccurate zoning maps. The "new" code isn't perfect by any means, but it's certainly proven itself as an

Whenever we cover a project on or near Baltimore Avenue, we always look at that project through the lens of how it relates to the commercial corridor. And this makes sense, because Baltimore Avenue and nearby 52nd Street are the centers of commerce in this part of West Philadelphia. But when we present Baltimore

It doesn't make any sense that the southeast corner of 36th & Sansom was sitting vacant since at least the 1960s. It's right on the edge of campus, with the Penn Law building located a block to the east and the Penn bookstore across the street. Had the property been

It's been more than fifteen years since we called West Philadelphia home, but for whatever reason we went to Lei's Auto & Collision Center at 4200 Ludlow St. a couple times in recent memory to get the Nakedphillymobile inspected. We were in the area the other day, not because we