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Flower Shop Changing Ownership
Categories: Fairmount/Art Museum, Retail
Fleur de Lys, the flower and accessories shop at 25th and Aspen, has closed due to the sad passing of the owner in July. New owners will be opening another flower shop there in the near future. GMAP
Need to Scare Up Some Work?
We saw this sign in the window of the Spring Garden CDC. The big "Terror Behind the Walls" haunted house at Eastern State Penitentiary is hiring, with remaining auditions tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday. This event brings more than 100,000 people to the Fairmount Avenue area from mid-September through NovemberFairmount Bustling With 'Dozer Activity
Ground has been broken at two condo developments on Fairmount Avenue. On the north side of the 1600 block (pictured above), work has commenced at the site of two future bi-level condos. (A sign popped up announcing them in late June.) Down the block at 1504 Fairmount, a bulldozerGoodbye Deli, Hello Korean Spot
Categories: Center City, Food and Drink
A tipster has alerted us that O! Deli on 18th and Ludlow has closed and is being replaced by a Korean rice bar with the apparently lower-cased name of b.b.go. The picture shows the current location under construction. Good news for the nabe?GMAP
Has Old City "Jumped the Shark"?
Categories: Old City, Quality of Life
That's the question posed by a story in the new Philadelphia magazine titled "What the Hell Happened to Old City?", and the answer, according to writer Richard Rys, is a resounding "yes." While the extended rumination focuses a tad too much on young women wearing overly tight skirts and
Francisville Affordable Rentals Are On the Way
Francisville East, an affordable rental housing development that takes up the whole 1500 block of Poplar, has been moving along fairly quickly these days. The website of developer Community Ventures says that it will include a 27-unit apartment building designed for seniors, nine four-bedroom houses and eight three-bedroom houses.Something Brewing at Wilkie Site
Categories: Development, Spring Garden
Are the long-dormant plans for renovating the Wilkie dealership site back on track? A few weeks ago we got a tip that interior electrical work was happening at the site — the square block running from Broad to 15th and from Green to Mount Vernon — but we couldn't
Old-Style Jazz Club on the Market?
Categories: Food and Drink, Spring Garden
A curious "available" sign is now hanging on the teal-green Prince's Jazz Club at 15th and Fairmount. The sign announces "buy, lease, ground rent" and the liquor license is included, but we can't track down an actual listing for the place. Anyone know the deal? GMAP
PHA Builds in Francisville with Stimulus Funds
A Philly Housing Authority project is now under construction at what was an empty lot on 17th north of Fairmount Avenue. The sign announces that it's being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With the recent hubbub in the Daily News over the quality of PHA's rehab16th and Fairmount Condos Get a Name
Categories: Development, Francisville
As construction continues apace on the condos at 16th and Fairmount, a sign has appeared offering a basic description and price of the units, as well as a name: Fairmount Flats. The sign, from a company called MJL Properties, announces 18 two-bed, two-bath "eco-friendly" condos starting at $249,900. Stated