King of Jeans sign being removed today, to be displayed at Provenance Salvage in NoLibs

Update: This post has been updated to include a statement from East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association’s zoning chair, David Goldfarb. We’ve been following the King of Jeans building development for years and it appears that it is now officially the end

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PHS pop up garden could be coming to one of these vacant lots

The Pennsylvania Horticultural society is considering two South Philly vacant lots to be transformed into one of the pop up gardens in the city this summer. At the Passyunk Square Civic Association meeting on Tuesday night, Jeffrey Barg of PHS

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Plans for redevelopment of Mt. Sinai Hospital dropped, site set to be demolished

For years now, we’ve been tracking the redevelopment of Mt. Sinai Hospital at 4th and Reed streets. Developers at Greenepointe Construction had been planning to convert the structure into upwards of 200 apartments. Now those plans for redevelopment have been nixed

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5-story mixed-use project proposed for 2401 Washington Ave.

We’ve mentioned before that Washington Ave. could be seeing a huge transformation in the future with Bart Blatstein’s development, the Frankford Chocolate Factory for sale, restriping plans and more. Now there’s a new potential mixed-use development worth talking about. At last

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