For decades, a contiguous eight-and-ten-story complex has loomed over Fifth & Master, a behemoth reminder of the loss of industry. But! The Shadow sees light at the end of the tunnel for the Drueding Brothers building, a.k.a. the Umbrella Factory

Under the El at Girard, a couple sets out to turn an historic bathhouse into a progressive playspace for children. Co-editor Michael Bixler reports

For over a century, John B. Stetson showered the world in well-made hats from his company’s 25 building manufacturing complex in South Kensington. The Shadow checked our vitals and suggests we accompany him to Union Mission Hospital, one of the last Philadelphia Stetson buildings left

There’s been good bit of new development–and redevelopment–in South Kensington lately, and there’s nothing better than a roundup of all the new (and newish) projects to give you a feel for what’s been happening

In the center of the debate over the future of American Street is a 20 year deli meat company, Emil’s Gourmet. Will the company be swallowed up by coming residential development, or will the street, to the dismay of some residents, remain industrial? Aaron Kase has the story, in this third part of our series on the future of South Kensington

How did Soko Lofts grow from 160 units to 320 to possibly 600? And what will happen to the parcel now that the developer has put it for sale? Aaron Kase looks for answers to these questions in this second part of our series on the future of South Kensington

In this first of a three part series on the future of South Kensington, reporter Aaron Kase finds a neighborhood perched on the edge

The owner of the building which partially collapsed on Girard Avenue over the weekend owes the city over $60,000 in back taxes on the property and those on either side of it. Christopher Mote checks in with L&I to see what happens next