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Iroko Extends Its Roots At The Navy Yard
Photo: Nathaniel PopkinWith some help from the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, the nascent Iroko Pharmaceuticals has increased its stake in the future of the Navy Yard Corporate Center...
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In Fairmount, Neighbors Balk At City Enforcement Of Ancient Property Lines
View looking north from the south end of Opal Street | Photo: Peter WoodallLaid out in 1869, the 800 block of tiny North Opal Street in Fairmount was given generous eight foot sidewalks. Since then a...
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Bunting House Denied Request For Injunction (Updated With Analysis)
Photo: Christopher Mote3:40PM UpdateAnthony and Frank Giovannone, the owners of the Bunting House, in addition to the three blighted houses next door along Ridge Avenue, plan on tearing down all four...
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O’Neill’s Attempt To Repeal New Commercial Zoning In NE Advances; Here’s Why...
Photo: Nathaniel PopkinThis afternoon, as members of City Council’s Rules Committee voted 4-3 to reverse some aspects of the progressive new zoning rules that were enacted and that would have...
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Doctor Of History Will See You Now
Photo: Nathaniel PopkinAs an architect, I’ve tromped through obscure places chasing a unique structure or historic location. In Paris, I sought the laboratory of Claude Bernard, the great 19th century...
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Students & Parents Distraught With News Of School Closings
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Haverford Cycle Building Would Make A Great Loft Conversion
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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The Phantom Station
Editor’s Note:Abandoned places are unsettling by their very nature, but there is something especially disturbing about seeing civic institutions–schools, hospitals, prisons and the like–in a state of...
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City Agrees To Save Delco Homes In Airport Expansion
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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For The Railroad Nation, The House Of Zinc
Photo: Ethan WallaceIn Fishtown, where Richmond Street meets Frankford Avenue, developer Michael Shamschick will turn the former Ajax Metal Company complex, dating to 1893, into the concert venue Live...
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We Heart This Bar?
Ajax Metals | Photo: Ethan WallaceSinger Toby Keith’s chain of country and western bar and restaurants, I Love This Bar, is coming to Fishtown, the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association zoning...
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Developer Open To NLNA’s Suggestions For Canal Street North
On Monday, Michael Samschick discussed his vision for Canal Street North—an entertainment and restaurant development to be centered on Canal Street in Fishtown and Northern Liberties—with the zoning...
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Parks And Trails Advance On The North Delaware While Real Estate Development...
Lardner’s Point Park, with the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge in the background | Photo: Peter WoodallWith several key trails in the works and the monumental Delaware and Richmond Power Stations drawing renewed...
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Take Us Mobile: Hidden City Partners With Google’s Field Trip
We’re pleased to announce that our place-based news reports and building histories are now available through Google’s new Field Trip mobile app. We’re Field Trip’s first non-profit journalism partner...
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Here’s To The Success Of The Hard Rock Cafe
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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One Place, Six Photographers
Most of the buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard have been restored, but with several hundred on the base, it’s not surprising that some still sit vacant. And a good thing, too, for our purposes at...
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New Juvenile Detention Center Unveiled Amid Protests
philly.comThe Juvenile Justice Services Center at 48th & Haverford was unveiled yesterday, finally replacing the overcrowded Youth Study Center on the Parkway. While Mayor Nutter touted the $110...
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Transformation on the Waterfront?
Compared to their brethren out West, most Philadelphia real estate developers are an imaginatively stunted lot. They don’t get the chance to build entire towns from scratch in the desert outside of...
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In University City, Technology Begets Technology
About the authorStephen Currall recently received his BA in history from Arcadia University. Before beginning doctoral studies, he is pursuing his interest in local history, specifically just how...
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Lost Buildings Of 2012
Aftermath of the Buck Hosiery mill fire | Photo: Peter WoodallEvery building meets its demise via a unique set of circumstances, however the historic buildings lost last year reflect some broad trends...
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