Developers completed a renovation of the Eastern building last year, and it’s been a revelation. Previously, this building, located at the intersection of 30th Street, Cecil B. Moore Avenue, and Glenwood Avenue, was sitting vacant and looking awful for many years. Thankfully, developers were able to preserve the building’s bones and create 37 apartments, office space, and a day care. It definitely catches the eye as you pass by, and it has definitely extended the market rate footprint of Brewerytown up to Cecil B. Moore Avenue.

Speaking of the extension of the market rate footprint of Brewerytown, now we think there’s some collateral “damage,” thanks to the Eastern building’s renovation. A reader reached out to us to tip us off to some zoning notices a block to the west, beyond the sunken rail tracks, on a parcel that’s been sitting vacant and overgrown for who knows how long. 3118 Cecil B. Moore Ave. is a large parcel, with about 12K sqft of space, and according to the Stormwater Map it’s now owned by Fin Development.

The zoning notice indicates that the developers are looking to build a dozen new homes here, each with parking. With no street parking on Patton Street, we can imagine a project with front loading garages, but a rear access drive aisle could also be in the cards. Either way, we’re pretty confident that this will be a market rate project, as we’ve seen other projects from this developer previously, like on the 300 block of Cecil B.

As we said, we don’t see any way that this project would possibly be moving forward without the Easern building renovation a block away. It’s kind of incredible to see Brewerytown development seeping into Strawberry Mansion like this, especially when you consider how much untapped potential remains within the Brewerytown borders. We suspect we’ll see some some additional projects crop up on the northern edge of Brewerytown in the coming years, though we’d expect we’ll still see the lion’s share of development further south, closer to Girard Avenue.