In West Poplar

Last summer, we wondered about 1000 W. Girard Ave., a large property that was home to the Althea Gibson Community Education and Tennis Center for about a decade. This place was an amazing neighborhood resource while it was around, teaching tennis and simultaneously creating a safe space for kids. Sadly, funding dried up

Money Max Funding operated out of the two-story building at 641 N. Broad St. for over a decade, primarily offering taxi medallion brokerage and other financial services for cab drivers. As Uber and Lyft have taken on a much larger role in getting people from one place to another over

The former Spring Garden School is coming back to life! We first thought about this blighted building during the summer of 2012, and told you that it had been sitting vacant since the 1980s, slowly deteriorating despite joining the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The building sits at

The three lots at 613-617 N. 11th St. have been sitting vacant for quite a long time, remaining in this state even as numerous projects have popped up on surrounding blocks in the neighborhood. When we went past these properties the other day though, we found that the situation had

For about a decade, the Althea Gibson Community Education and Tennis Center at 1000 W. Girard Ave. was a wonderful resource for kids in the surrounding community, giving them a safe space and teaching a sport not often practiced in this North Philadelphia neighborhood. Unfortunately, the community center closed in

We were traveling across town the other day and spied some orange notices posted on a number of buildings just to the north of 9th & Jefferson. We were pretty surprised to see zoning notices at this location, so a closer look was in order.Orange posters on blighted buildingsUpon further

The last few years have brought significant changes for the Studebaker building at 667 N. Broad St., and the next couple of years will bring even more changes. In 2011, the Ridge Avenue men's shelter closed its doors due to in part to an effort from HUD to move away from

People are obsessed with the Divine Lorraine. Perhaps that's why so many folks flipped out about our 2012 April Fools prank, when we declared that the wonderful building, vacant since the mid-1990s, would be demolished. That seems like a really long time ago, as everyone now knows that EB Realty

If you've never been to the Institute at 12th & Green, we don't know what you're waiting for. This place has been kicking it since 2008, years before this neighborhood became a development hotbed. And they've got tater tots too. With all the construction that's happened in the area since

We were in the neighborhood on this mild morning, and happened upon some unexpected construction on the 1200 block of Ridge Avenue. Across the street from the excellent Doctor J mural, a two-story building at 1232 Ridge Ave. is growing up, with a two-story addition and a four-story new building