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At the end of last year, beer drinkers in the Fishtown and Olde Richmond neighborhoods were stunned when their coveted beer distributor at York and Almond Streets closed. The 28,374 square foot, CMX-2 zoned parcel, which was also known for its Christmas tree sales during the holidays, was presumed to be sold to a developer
Another day, another transit-oriented development to tell you about in Philadelphia. As we’ve told you about many times in the past through our articles and social media pages, developers have been flocking to development sites surrounding the city’s public transit infrastructure. One of the biggest hotbeds of transit-oriented development has been along the Front Street
Back in July, we told you about 56 new residential units and multiple commercial spaces coming to the area surrounding the Fishtown / East Kensington Roundabout. This once dangerous, 6-point intersection was recently reconfigured with a roundabout, making it safer for pedestrians, bicyclists, and automobile drivers. Not only has the road changed, but two major
Back in September of 2021, we told you that developers were planning a 196-unit project along the river on what was then a surface parking lot next to Rivers Casino in Fishtown at 933 North Penn Street. We finally have an update on the project. The development has decreased in unit count by 1 and
We’ve recently told you about several large projects that are under construction north of Spring Garden Street along Delaware Avenue. We also just alerted you that a 78-unit project was approved at Frankford and Delaware Avenue across from the casino. Delaware Avenue is finally beginning to have its modern heyday in the Riverwards and is
Fishtown has been going through a development boom over the last decade with mixed-use, multifamily, and single family home properties being constructed throughout the area. Over this time, Fishtown has become one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Philadelphia – attracting a ton of new residents and some of the best restaurants in the city.
It’s been a long road to construction for the former surface parking lot at 1351-59 Frankford Avenue just north of La Colombe in Fishtown. A zoning permit was issued for a 33-unit, mixed-use development on the site way back in 2015. Then, in 2019, plans shifted to a 5-story project with ground floor commercial space
Just over two years ago, we told you that developers were seeking a variance to build a 21-unit, mixed-use building along Lee Street on the back part of the parcel at 1324 Frankford Avenue. At the time, they were building a 50-unit project at 1324 Frankford. The development team ended up getting the variance for
About four years ago, news broke that a new home for West Collection, a contemporary art collection assembled by SEI Investments founder Alfred West and his daughter Paige West, would be built in Fishtown on the site of an old warehouse and piece of vacant land at 1115-27 Frankford Avenue. At the time, little details
If you take the El along Front Street through Northern Liberties, Fishtown, and Kensington today, it seems like every other property is under construction or a newly completed building. Just 7 or so years ago, this would have seemed unfathomable with a ton of blight and a void of commercial spaces along this strip. Today,
Back in April of 2019, we told you that four buildings at 1538 through 1544 Frankford Avenue were being sold as a package and imagined that they would be purchased by a developer and demolished to make way for a new mixed-use building. The buildings sold shortly after that and the development team went through
Last week, we told you that the 470-unit Festival Pier redevelopment and a 466-unit project right across the street on the site of a former Greyhound bus terminal were both under construction. That’s 936 homes getting built right on the same block. Well, these are not the only massive projects under construction on this strip.