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Philly Tech Week Lands Comcast As Title Sponsor
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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Blatstein And Volpe To Buy Delaware Generating Station From Exelon Corp.
Delaware Generating Station | Photo: Michael BixlerDeveloper Bart Blatstein and caterer Joseph Volpe have signed contracts and entered a purchasing agreement with Exelon Corp for the sale of Delaware...
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Apartment Tower Redesign Would Still Detract From The Rodin Museum
Philly, this view of the Rodin Museum could be yours! | Photo: Philly.comInga Saffron calls David Blumenfeld’s revised proposal for an apartment complex at 2100 Hamilton “a tsunami instead of a wave”...
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Lost Buildings Of 2014
Editor’s Note:Development pressure is growing substantially in Philadelphia as the real estate market continues to improve. The pressure is deep and wide, impacting many neighborhoods across the city....
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Hats Off To The Last Stetson Building Standing
John B. Stetson’s Union Mission Hospital in South Kensington | Photo: Michael BixlerThere’s no doubt that the John B. Stetson Company was one of Philadelphia’s greatest success stories. The...
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Blatstein Pulls Appeal, Will Reconsider His Redevelopment Of Former Inquirer...
Bart Blatstein will refocus his efforts with the old “Tower of Truth.” | Photo: Elise Wrabetz, for philly.comDisenchanted with the Commonwealth’s casino license process and unwilling to let “an iconic...
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Lits’ Lights: Let’s Look
Philadelphia in test mode | Photo: @mauleofamericaBrickstone Realty’s transformation-in-progress of the 1100 block of Chestnut Street reads big and bold, a multimillion dollar project infusing new life...
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Fearing Demolition, Community Advocates Of Germantown YWCA Call For Emergency...
Germantown YWCA and the Pastorius Monument viewed from Vernon Park. Note the broken, open windows on the second and third floors | Photo: Bradley MauleGermantown residents are concerned and confused...
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Preservation And Contemporary Design For 36th And Walnut
View from corner of Sansom & 36th Streets | Rendering courtesy of KPMB ArchitectsThe University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees has approved the final design for the $77.6 million Ronald O....
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Comcast To Monopolize Office Space In Next Skyscraper
Now, all of the hypothetical employees in this rendering will be Comcast employees. | Courtesy of Comcast and Foster + Partners, via Philadelphia Business JournalSpeaking at the Union League yesterday,...
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Gray Area: The Future Of “30th Street Station”
“William H. Gray III 30th Street Station | Photo: Bradley MauleAnd with a flick of the wrist, 30th Street Station was no more. On August 8, 2014, President Barack Obama signed bill P.L. 113-158 into...
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J.T. Riley Lumberyard Yields To Mixed-Use Development
After 110 years in the lumber business, the Riley family closed shop at 3rd and Girard last year | Photo: Michael BixlerIn December, over a year after Donald R. Riley last closed the handsome paneled...
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Furness Church Escapes Demolition, Will Be Reused For School Space
The former Episcopal Church of the Atonement at 47th Street & Kingsessing in April, 2013 | Photo: Bradley Maule, for Hidden CityAaron Wunsch, a historic preservation professor at Penn, has spared a...
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Time Is Right To Redevelop Festival Pier, Says Waterfront Corporation
“Master Plan for the Central Delaware’s Festival Pier Rendering, showing the redevelopment of the entire 11-acre site.” | Courtesy of Delaware River Waterfront CorporationFeeling the time is right to...
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New Report Calls For “Equitable Development,” Offers Policy Recommendations
The front page of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations’ latest reportCity Paper considers a report released yesterday by the Philadelphia Association of Community...
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At Liberty Place, The Ghost Of Hot Jazz
Billy Krechmer (at left on clarinet) and his band at his club, May 1962 | Courtesy of the George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Temple...
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Nearly $1 Million In Improvements Coming To Vernon Park This Summer
“Planned improvements include landscape and pathway updates, new children’s playground equipment, the addition of adult fitness equipment and restoration of the park’s monuments and statues.” | Photo:...
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Inquirer Investigation Suggests L&I Reforms Are Not Happening
“Area of the 2600 block of Poplar Street where Ashaw Demolition of Oxford Circle took down nearly half a block of buildings.” | Photo: Alejandro A. Alvarez, for The InquirerThe Inquirerinvestigates the...
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Winter Whiteout 2015
Man and nature come together in this wintry display at the spillway of the lower Robeson dam, once part of a mill complex dating to the 1690s. The stone arch bridge carrying SEPTA’s R6...
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East Falls Residents “Blindsided” By Sale of Former Psychiatric Institute
The Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute at 3232 Henry Avenue has sat vacant since 2013. | Photo: Brian Hickey, for NewsWorksLast month, the Commonwealth finalized the sale of the sprawling...
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