PHILADELPHIA -- City School, a private, independent school based in Philadelphia, has paid $9.075 million to buy the former Palmer School in Northern Liberties to accommodate its expanding enrollment and breathe new life into a building that once housed a now defunct charter school. The…

PHILADELPHIA -- For 70 years, the Kramer family owned and managed a portfolio of four buildings along Spruce Street in Center City that had 35 apartments. The brownstones at 1023, 1026, 1027 and 1028 Spruce St. were originally built as single-family homes in the mid-1800s…

PHILADELPHIA -- Earlier this year, MPN's Joe Scarpone and Michael Hersch assisted South Philly's Blackbird Pizzeria in securing a prime location in Northern Liberties to open a second location of ther popular restaurant. Blackbird Pizzeria, one of the stalwarts of Philadelphia's vegan restaurant scene, officially…

PHILADELPHIA -- A roundup of real estate deals you may have missed this week includes two new tenants taking a combined 43,000 square feet in a building a block off of North Broad Street and a Fort Washington, Pa.-based company upping the size of its…

PHILADELPHIA -- Chef Mel Tenorio has been teasing us with his Colombian cuisine - a mix of straight-ahead favorites with a few fusion dishes - for six months or so. Billed as Usaquén - after his home neighborhood in Bogata -his pop-ups at Fishtown's Philly Style Bagels…

PHILADELPHIA -- After seven years on Sixth Street near South, vegan hotspot Blackbird Pizzeria is in expansion mode. Mark Mebus and crew are coming to Northern Liberties, as Blackbird will take over the space at 614 N. Second Street whch last housed Same Same and previously Koo…

MPN Realty Inc. was named among 2016's Top 25 Commercial Real Estate Brokerages in the Philadelphia region, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal's Book of Lists, ranking No.21. The rankings are determined by the total square feet of real estate leased and sold.

PHILADELPHIA -- MPN Realty, Inc. was selected by commercial real estate’s largest research organization (CoStar) as one of the top Commercial Real Estate Sales Firms in the Philadelphia market. This annual award recognizes the “best of the best” in commercial real estate brokerage by highlighting…

PHILADELPHIA -- A former Reading Railroad building that has been vacant for more than a year after a small fire broke out in it has sold for $6.5 million. An undisclosed local partnership bought the 5-story, 72,000-square-foot building at 915 Spring Garden St. in Philadelphia…

PHILADELPHIA -- Goldenberg Group has bought a portfolio of properties in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia for $18.5 million. With just a few exceptions, such as the conversion of the Ayer into condominiums, the Blue Bell-based real estate company typically doesn't buy structures that…

PHILADELPHIA -- A retail property located in a prominent spot in Philadelphia’s Central Business District has traded for the first time in more than 20 years. The unassuming building at 33-37 S. 16th St. sits directly across from Liberty Place and had been owned by Carlos…

PHILADELPHIA -- They're in love, they're chefs, and they're opening a restaurant called Love & Honey Fried Chicken together in Northern Liberties. Todd and Laura Lyons, both grads of the Culinary Institute of America, just signed a lease for the ground-floor corner spot at the…

PHILADELPHIA -- The dreamy corner spot at Pine and Quince Streets in Washington Square West last occupied by the Farm & Fisherman (and Paul, before that) will become a white-tablecloth BYOB called Aroma. Antonio Cardillo and business partner Susan Dennis promise a quick turn-around for…

Philadelphia -- MPN Realty Leads The Charge In Downtown Philadelphia MPN continues to set the mark in multifamily investment sales, land for development and retail leasing in Greater Philadelphia.