Update: Cambridge Row Homes Progressing, More On the Way
Right around Christmas time, we first told you about plans for ten new homes scattered over four blocks of Cambridge Street on the Fairmount/Brewerytown border. This project was to involve a...
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PHA Finally Getting Around To Demolishing A Dangerous Blighted Building
About a month ago, we told you about 1010 and 1012 S. 20th St., two long-blighted properties owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Both properties had just been posted with notices from L&I...
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What’s a Few Dozen More Student Apartments Near Temple?
About a week ago, we found ourselves on the corner of 16th & Montgomery, and noted that a mural (with a lousy message for kids) appeared to be on the outs, as it was surrounded by a construction...
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Two Blighted PHA Properties Demolished. Now What?
Last month, we shared some outstanding news for people who live near 20th & Carpenter- two long-vacant and blighted PHA properties were finally being demolished. This came a month after the...
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The Good Times Just Keep Spreading North as Two Projects Coalesce Around 19th...
We’ve produced a veritable deluge of words about the intersection of 19th & Poplar, clogging your minds with information about four large projects that surround the intersection. It should come as...
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New Duplexes Finishing Up On 20th Street in Francisville
When we last checked in on the 700 block of N. 20th Street in Francisville, developers were demolishing a blighted and vacant property, formerly of the PHA, and accidentally damaged the roof of the...
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Another Three Story Duplex Will Break Up a Francisville Block
Last year, developers demolished a one-story home on 19th Street in Francisville and replaced it with a three story duplex. The project caused a stir in the neighborhood in a way that you might not...
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Untapped Potential at 16th & North
The historic Spring Garden neighborhood has come a long way in the last twenty years. By now, most of the neighborhood has been redeveloped, with quaint row homes and historic mansions filling its...
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Vacant Lot, Blighted Building Replaced By New Homes on Cambridge Street
Last week, we told you about Teaful Bliss relocating from 11th & Spring Garden to the corner of 28th & Cambridge, in Brewerytown. When we were up there snapping photos and grabbing a tasty cup...
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More Vacant Properties To Be Redeveloped in Francisville?
In Francisville, 20th Street Properties LLC has been capitalizing on widespread redevelopment by purchasing and razing vacant properties and building new homes on the same lots. They’ve been buying up...
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