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In the post-Covid environment, developers in cities across the country are looking for ways to adaptively reuse urban office buildings as work from home has become more prevalent and companies have shrunk their office footprints. Although Philadelphia’s office real estate market is fairing better than other major cities such as San Francisco and Chicago, non
If you read our articles often, you know we love a good adaptive reuse story. These types of projects are more rare than new construction projects in Philadelphia as many of the older buildings in the city that are viable for adaptive reuse have already been renovated, or, sadly, demolished over the last few decades.
Back around 2016, we remember watching the beautiful Provident Mutual Insurance Building near 46th Street Station being renovated as we regularly rode the El through West Philly. Slowly, the facade was cleaned up and new windows were installed in preparation of the property being used as the Philadelphia Police headquarters. The city ended up spending
In the past, we’ve told you about a bunch of cool projects in Harrowgate primarily surrounding the Tioga El Station. Developers have been converting old warehouses and industrial buildings in the neighborhood into residential and maker spaces over the last several years. It’s truly amazing to see the neighborhood transforming and to be able to
The Delaware Avenue corridor on the Southeast edge of Northern Liberties is a giant construction zone right now. We recently told you about three mega projects that are under construction along this strip: the 470-unit Festival Pier redevelopment, a 466-unit project right across the street from Festival Pier, and a 462-unit development just up the
Back in May of 2022, we told you that a zoning permit was issued to convert Viking Mills, which was then home to a bunch of local artists and makers, into a 77 residential units along with some industrial space. This news caused a lot of uproar from the arts community as Viking Mills tenants,
Our favorite types of projects to see in Philadelphia involve the adaptive reuse of beautiful old buildings. Too often in this city, we see these structures demolished to make way for new development. However, we’re hoping a program created a few years ago that is available to developers working on historic buildings continues to provide
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
Back in April, we told you that developers were seeking a variance to replace Vesper Day Club in Northern Liberties with 20 townhomes. We also told you that the same group planned on building 16 more townhomes to the east of the Vesper site and also owned the historic church next door at Front and
If you read our articles often, you know that our favorite type of developments to see happen in Philadelphia are adaptive reuse projects. We love to see the historic streetscape of Philadelphia preserved and for new life to be breathed into blighted old buildings. Just last week, we told you about plans to convert a
If you’ve ever been on the 1600 block of South 28th Street in Grays Ferry, you’ve definitely noticed the beautiful old church just to the north of Morris Street. John Chambers Presbyterian Church sits at 1629-37 South 28th Street. The structure was built in 1902 with funding from John Wanamaker. The congregation dissolved in 2011
It was back in April of 2019 that we told you that the Historic Weisbrod & Hess Brewery on Martha Street had been sold and that a modern addition to the building would be demolished. We weren’t sure what the plan for the property was at that point, but hoped that the structure would be