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Close Call For Bromley Carpet Factory After 3-Alarm Fire In Neighboring Building
The rear and north-facing side of Bromely Carpet factory engulfed in smoke | Photo: Ed NewtonA 3-alarm blaze broke out along the 2300 block of Front Street in Kensington at 5:15AM this morning shutting...
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Under Inspection: Five Residential Projects Currently Breaking Ground
Though we haven’t yet seen any groundbreaking architectural choices, developers are giving new, large-scale developments more thoughtful, aesthetically-pleasing design than they have had in...
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Committee Approves 3D Signage For Center City
Rendering of one of three “urban experiential displays” envisioned for the Center City streetscape.A City Council Committee decided yesterday to ignore the Planning Commission’s recommendations against...
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Mayor’s Office Awards $60K For Performances In Public Spaces Program
“Roxborough’s Gorgas Park is one of the public spaces chosen to host performances under the arts initiative.” | Photo: Natavan Werbock, for NewsWorksNewsWorks considers the Northwest’s six...
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Seeing Between The Ci-Lines: St. Andrew’s Chapel Awakened With Art And Geometry
Illuminating St. Andrew’s Chapel | Photo: Michael BixlerEditor’s Note:This Saturady, Aaron Asis will activate the vacant, Gothic Revival grandeur of St. Andrew’s Collegiate Chapel in Spruce Hill with a...
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Historical Commission To Consider Protecting Blue Horizon Exterior
The Blue Horizon’s auditorium in February, 2014 | Photo: Vince HerbeAs Mosaic Development Partners and Orens Brothers Real Estate continue to accrue the funds necessary for the renovations to the Blue...
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The Toughest Little Hut In Logan Square
The Gulf Oil hut at 20th and Arch Streets still hanging tough after 87 years | Photo: Michael BixlerThe “Avis Lot” at the southwest corner of 20th and Arch Street is a prime example of the many...
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The Costs Of Selling Schools
“Sale of the West Philadelphia High School to a private developer closed this February.” | Photo: Nathaniel Hamilton, for NewsWorksIn the past two years, the School District has sold off a dozen...
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Claiming Fraud, Owner Of Metropolitan Opera House Seeks To Dissolve Ties To...
Developer Eric Blumenfeld in the Metropolitan Opera House, for which he is being sued for by owners. | Photo: Michael S. Wirtz, for the Daily NewsIn a suit filed last month in Common Pleas Court, the...
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On Front Street, A Warehouse With A Sacred Past Seeks Salvation
Second Associate Presbyterian was abandoned by its congregation in 1954 for the suburbs and has spent its days as a building supply warehouse ever since | Photo: Oscar BeisertLast fall, a handsome,...
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Peering Ahead To A New Festival Pier
The proposed restructuring of Festival “Pier’s” piers. | Thornton TomasettiEyes on the Street further contextualizes the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation’s motions, just now manifesting in...
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Coda For Mayor Street’s NTI
“An abandoned row house is seen next to a vacant lot full of rubble in North Philadelphia this file photo. In 2001, the city launched a plan to spend $295 million to tear down 14,000 abandoned homes,...
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Penn Takes “Collage” Approach To Preservation With Perry World House
An extreme make over is currently underway for the Samuel Sloan-designed dwelling at 3803 Locust Walk | Photo: Michael BixlerEditors Note:Perry World House is an unconventional project for the...
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Owner Of River City Site To Pursue Rezoning & Sale
“River City is comprised of five parcels totaling just over seven acres and is L-shaped. It consists of 60 N. 23rd St., 2301, 2201, 2101 and 2001 John F. Kennedy Blvd.” | Courtesy of JLLAfter feeling...
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Shining A Light On The Beacon Of Boathouse Row
Turtle Rock Light was built in the late 1800’s to keep river traffic away from the banks of the Schuylkill River | Photo: Peter WoodallOne might think life on Boathouse Row would be serene, especially...
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What Will Bring Shoppers Back To East Market?
“Demolition work continues on the remaining structure along Market Street between 11th and 12th Streets.” | Photo: David Maialetti, for The InquirerThe Inquirer looks at how the City and developers...
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A Third Way In Historic Preservation
“Before restoration efforts began, chunks of the stone facade of the Frank Furness-designed 19th Street Baptist Church were crumbling to the street and the roof was caving in.” | Photo: Alex Lewis, for...
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The Hidden Patterns Of Ownership In Northern Liberties And Grays Ferry
Editor’s Note:This is the first in a series of data-driven reports on “hidden patterns” that define our cityscape.Northern Liberties and Grays Ferry are two seemingly divergent neighborhoods. In the...
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Who Needs Silicon Valley When You Have Philly?
“Leadnomics cofounders Zachary Robbins (left) and Stephen Gill in their [former] Cira Centre office.” Photo: Steven Falk, for the Daily NewsZach Robbins, the founder of Leadnomics, a digital marketing...
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Interior Designation For Blue Horizon’s Historic Boxing Arena Denied
The Blue Horizon’s auditorium in February, 2014 | Photo: Vince HerbeGrave news today for the interior of the Blue Horizon on North Broad Street. The Philadelphia Historical Commission voted in favor of...
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