In West Philly

So much has changed at the western end of Penn's campus since 2001, when Fresh Grocer opened at the northwest corner of 40th & Walnut. The Radian sprouted on the 3900 block of Walnut, replacing some run down stores and a gross movie theater. A pair of Hub buildings have

We were traveling through Powelton Village the other day and spied a very minor construction project, but it looked pretty unusual so we figured it was worth a mention. Thanks to its architecture, this neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, but for whatever reason,

For those unfamiliar, the University City Science Center is an urban research center in, big surprise, West Philly, on Market Street next to Drexel and Penn. The campus of the Science Center stretches over multiple blocks, covering 15 buildings and includes office and lab space for start-up and mature companies alike.

Until a couple of years ago, the 4000 block of Chestnut Street boasted four nearly identical pairs of Italianate twins designed by Thomas H. Powers and built shortly after the Civil War. A little over a year ago, University Realty demoed the buildings at 4042-44 Chestnut St. and have since built a

As Philadelphia development has boomed in the last decade or so, we've seen major changes in several neighborhoods, like Point Breeze, Francisville, and East Kensington, for example. In each of those neighborhoods and a few others, new construction has filled in vast swaths of vacant land, and developers have repaired

Student housing has boomed across many sections of West Philadelphia, with tons of new buildings rising in Mantua in recent years. The construction has slowly crept northward, but it hasn't yet made its way to Ogden Street, where we will draw your gaze on this rainy afternoon. This part of

A little over a year ago, we traveled out to Walnut Hill in West Philadelphia to tell you about a derelict apartment building getting a makeover at 51st & Walnut. The building was vacant for a pretty long time and had garnered a whole lot of damage from graffiti, the weather,

We've visited the blocks around the 40th & Baring intersection perhaps a dozen times over the years, regularly providing updates on this booming part of Mantua. Way back in 2011, some new apartment buildings had recently finished in the north side of the 4000 block of Baring Street, with a

It was just a couple years ago that the Summit at University City sprouted on the 3400 block of Lancaster Avenue, replacing a couple of low slung institutional buildings with a massive mixed-use building targeting Drexel students. We don't need to tell you that this building was transformative for the

About half a year ago, we called your attention to the slow and methodical demolition of Penn Tower, at the intersection where HUP meets CHOP meets the Penn Museum. As we told you previously, Penn Tower was originally built as a hotel but slowly transitioned to a HUP office building.