Daughter of luxury Rittenhouse high-rise developer has big plans for Bok; Vare & Smith sales also approved

UPDATE: Bok was sold to a company run by the daughter of the luxury developer mentioned in this post. Click here for details of the mixed-use plan. The sales of the shuttered Bok, Vare and Smith schools were approved last night

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Frankie’s on the Avenue at 1635 E. Passyunk Ave. is closing, to be replaced by a massage place

As Frankie’s on the Avenue at 1635 E. Passyunk Ave. approaches its closing on Oct. 1, a new business is already being prepared to open in the same location. According to a permit, it appears that a new massage place

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Price of 7 houses at 1840 S. Camac St. spiked about $100k in the last year – and they’re not even built yet

A seven-home development called Passyunk Point, which is replacing the demolished Mancini catering hall at 1840 S. Camac St., has gone on the market with pre-construction prices of $459,000 to $525,000. Back in July 2013, here’s what we reported when

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Check out the new rendering for the 12th and Morris building

Construction will begin in about six weeks on the replacement for the recently demolished building that used to house Artisan Boulanger, according to developer Stephen Olitsky. Olitsky says the new design for the building at 12th, Morris and Passyunk, of

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