In West Poplar

Last fall, we were excited to learn about a plan to renovate the long vacant and blighted Quaker building at 9th & Poplar into a sparkly mixed-use project. We first brought this building to your attention back in 2015, at which point we were hopeful that it would soon come

On our way to snag some photos and grab lunch from a food truck on Temple's campus yesterday, we happened upon some renovation activity taking place on North Broad Street. A Santucci's location opened at 655 N. Broad St. a couple years back, taking over for another (surely inferior) pizza spot.

Despite being added to the National Historic Register in 1986, the former Spring Garden School, located at 843 N. 12th St., has been sitting blighted and vacant for decades, a white elephant in the middle of the Richard Allen Homes PHA development. We first pondered this building back in 2012, wondering whether

It wasn't even a week ago that we shared, with no small amount of excitement, that redevelopment is on the horizon for the long vacant and blighted Quaker building at 9th & Poplar. We were pleased for a few different reasons. First, that building has seriously been bugging us for years. In addition,

It's probable that you've noticed the large vacant warehouse at 9th & Poplar at some point over the years, and perhaps you've wondered why it exists and whether it could get redeveloped at some point. We've certainly noticed it many times, and back in 2015 we wrote about it and mentioned

Chain link fence is a very important part of our job. When we're cruising around town looking for stuff to write about, the sight of chain link fence is often a cue that development is brewing. Often, without knowing anything whatsoever about a property, we'll snap a couple of photos

Looking over the calendar for upcoming ZBA hearings, we spied a little project immediately next door to another project we recently covered. It was just a few days ago that we showed you the newest phase of Spring Arts Point, six homes now gettting framed out at the corner of

A few days ago, we told you about plans to demolish a long vacant warehouse at the corner of 10th & Mount Vernon, and to build a row of five duplexes in its place. To the east and the west of that project are homes that are part of Spring

Toward the end of 2013, we considered a seemingly vacant warehouse on the southwest corner of 10th & Mount Vernon and wondered when the domino would fall on its redevelopment. At the time, the Spring Arts Point project, after sitting dormant for a couple of years, was ramping up construction

The 1000 block of Fairmount Avenue doesn't exactly jump off the page as an attractive location for development. Railroad tracks run a block and a half to the east, and a few warehouses sit between 10th Street and the tracks. And the north side of the block is the southern