Real Estate
Bringing new homes, old convenience back to Sharswood Blumberg
The new development is part of a massive, federally funded undertaking that began in earnest in 2016, when PHA imploded the high-rise towers.
6 years ago
Fishtown developer proposes fence; gives neighbors the ‘middle finger’
A 95-unit apartment building is coming to a blighted Fishtown lot near the Berks elevated train stop.
6 years ago
What to do with a soon-to-be empty, taxpayer-funded mansion?
Pennsylvania's new lieutenant governor says it would feel "inappropriate" to move into the residence that comes with his job.
6 years ago
Listen 5:04City selling vacant lots with eye to ‘social impact’
City agencies own a quarter of the 40,000 vacant parcels of land. On Friday 26 will be up for sale.
6 years ago
What happens when your real estate gets remapped
Developers shift strategy after remapping and adapt their business models to develop more single-family homes for sale, instead of multi-family units for rent.
6 years ago
Is South Street’s retail apocalypse coming to an end?
“We think we’ve hit the bottom, and that’s why we’re jumping in.”
6 years ago
Homeowners down the shore stand to lose millions from sea level rise
Knowledge of sea level rise has not stopped building in vulnerable areas along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts.
6 years ago
West Philly-bred developer seeks ‘return on community’ when eyeing new projects
Long before I learned about redlining, “white flight,” and mass incarceration, I wondered how spaces that housed the dead could look so much better than those for the living.
6 years ago
Kenney ‘won’t speculate on speculation’ that Philly’s out of running for Amazon HQ2
"We're in the running until they tell us we're not."
6 years ago
City to survey land in flood-prone Eastwick before soliciting developer bids
The vacant land in question sits in a 100-year-floodplain.
6 years ago
Don’t call it Cedarbrook: Mount Airy shopping district gets a facelift
This week, a new chapter began with the ribbon-cutting on a $310,000 revitalization project.
6 years ago
Trump’s development tax break presents ‘unusual’ opportunity for Philly, Drexel fellow says
The Treasury Department this month issued proposed guidelines for the program, which includes 82 zones in Philadelphia, 300 in Pennsylvania.
6 years ago
Kensington’s hottest address? New homes to rise across from scene of scrapyard fire
Late Wednesday afternoon, Somerset LLC won a variance to enable their plan for the development of 153 housing units
6 years ago
A Nicetown factory goes to auction
“It was the heartbeat of this neighborhood.”
6 years ago