A demolition notice mistakenly placed on the doors of 19th Street Baptist Church in Point Breeze sent the preservation and planning community in hot pursuit of answers this week. Michael Bixler reports

With the fate of Germantown’s historic YWCA in balance, Councilwoman Cindy Bass says she will stabilize and renovate while waiting for a new round of development proposals for the site, which advocates feared would be torn down

After a piece of it crashed onto the sidewalk, the defining feature that earned 1106 Chestnut Street a place on the city’s Register of Historic Places has been entirely removed. Max Ufberg weighs the conflicts facing City Blue, L&I, and the Historical Commission—and the options to resolve them

With site prep already underway, the demolition of St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic Church is about to begin. Christopher Mote reports that L&I has deemed the entire structure, not just the steeple, a threat to the neighborhood and it must come down

An October 15 inspection turned up numerous violations at the bustling former mill in East Kensington. The need for cheap rent and raw space meets the city’s heightened regulatory push in light of the fire at Buck Hosiery and the building collapse in Center City that killed six