South of South St. from River to River
Since 2013 we’ve been telling you about the plans for this Pennsport housing development being built on the former site of St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church at 3rd and Reed. Three years later, the project is still having some problems with construction. Stop-work
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This winter Pennsport’s food scene saw a little shakeup with the closing of two restaurants, 1st Ward Sandwich and Fourth and Cross. Lee Styer and Joncarl Lachman have opened their new breakfast concept called The Dutch in the former Fourth
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A few months ago Dickinson Square West Civic Association released a survey asking the community if they would like to see a dog run installed at Pennsport’s Dickinson Square Park. To this point in the process, the project has received
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In 2013 a $4.1 million 24-hour veterinary center opened in Pennsport at 1114 S. Front St. That facility, called Veterinarian Specialty & Emergency Center, will soon be expanding, at the cost of one of Pennsport’s restaurants. The Vietnamese restaurant called
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It has now been a year since plans for a new restaurant in the former Ugly American location were announced. This bar, called Keystone, had originally been planning for late-May of 2015. Now it looks like this new spot in
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Just after hearing less-than-positive feedback from the Civic Design Review, the Design Advocacy Group has decided to weigh in on Bart Blatstein’s South Philly projects. The plans for a 32-story tower and rooftop village at Broad and Washington and the
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