Philly Bricks

Like many publicly operated organizations, the city's preservation task force has already proven itself useless. That's a chore in i...

EB Realty Management has released renderings for North Broad's Metropolitan Opera House and, well, it looks like the Met we know with p...

If you thought the Boyd Theater, or at least its remains, was about to fade into dull obscurity, guess again. This is, after all, Philadelph...

Are you tired of renting a ZipCar every time you want to go to Target? Ever since Kmart closed on Market East, Center City's been devoid...

Last month the Philadelphia Historical Commission sent Pearl Properties back to the drawing board for its mixed use complex at 19th and Ches...

With the tragic loss of Philadelphia's last movie palace, the Boyd Theater on Chestnut Street, many were looking to Pearl Property's...

When academics, preservationists, historians, and neighborhood advocacy groups rush to save sites as revered as the Divine Lorraine or as hu...

What's historically significant about a building? Is it the grand ballroom, a theater's auditorium, the marble friezes adorning a tr...

Months ago, at the height of an effort to save Philadelphia's last surviving movie palace, the Historical Commission proved that it kno...

As demolition appears to have begun at the Boyd Theater, activists are dealing with the twelve stages of grief, primarily fixating on ange...

After a valiant effort on behalf of preservation activists, Live Nation didn't waste time beginning demolition at the historic Boyd Th...

In what may be a last minute miracle , Friends of the Boyd founder Howard B. Haas seems to have an anonymous buyer willing to match iPic...

Philly.com Philadelphia's sole surviving movie palace, The Boyd Theater, is charging headfirst at the wrecking ball. Our city's ...

iPic Entertainment's President, Hamid Hashemi has claimed that an eight screen mega complex is the only way to save the historic Boyd T...

I just caught the Rocky Horror inspired episode of Cold Case , complete with Barry Bostwick. Aside from the question that slaps me in the f...

A quick look at some great contributions to the Philadelphia skyline that may or may not make it. Richard Meier's Mandeville Place at 24...