Crisis averted for Bromley Carpet Factory in Kensington after 3-alarm fire breaks out along Front Street.

Good news is afoot in Kensington. Construction is finally underway at Bromley Carpet Mill on Jasper Street. Michael Bixler has this story of perseverance and preservation

The Philly History Truck steps—err, drives—into action this evening with the opening of Manufacturing Fire, the first exhibition to come about from the truck’s creative community process.

Frequent Google Street Viewers know what Michael Burlando has discovered: there’s a virtual ghost city of blocks and buildings and places that only endure online. Here are some of his best finds

After a year of coping with the loss of the Buck Hosiery mill and two firefighters who died trying to put out the fire that brought it down, the city’s would was ripped open again over the weekend in Fabric Row. Theresa Stigale remembers Buck with these photos taken in that fire’s cleanup

Bromley mill owner Jesse Munoz weighs the community’s reaction to his initial plans for the long empty building–a conversation that’s intensified since the loss of the adjacent Buck Hosiery mill. In this initial “Behind the Facade,” writer Nic Esposito finds Munoz at work inside the building. Illustrations by Ben Leech

A look back at ten remarkable historic structures torn down last year

The Inquirer’s Stephan Salisbury remembers the primal fear of the Swoboda Tannery fire of 1990, one of a series of fires big and small that leveled chunks of the Northern Liberties