In Brewerytown

We first visited the 1300 block of N. Marston Street back in 2015, noting that developers had purchased 1327-33 N. Marston St., a long vacant industrial building. We told you that the developers were working to stabilize the building, a former milk depot, and predicted that redevelopment was probably in store

The history of 2620 W. Girard Ave. is far from obvious, given that it's a sizable vacant lot in the middle of Brewerytown's primary commercial corridor. You'd never realize that it was once a rail depot, later transitioned to a bus terminal, and was eventually home to a supermarket. Since the

We last checked in on the northeast corner of 31st & Jefferson a little less than two years ago, as construction was just getting underway for a project called Otto Brewerytown. You can probably guess if you don't remember that 1501 N. 31st St. was previously an industrial building, and you

Just about every block in Brewerytown provides an example of the changes that the neighborhood has undergone over the last several years, with projects large and small dotting the landscape. If you're looking for the densest concentration of new units, however, you need look no further than the northwest corner

Someday, when we've got some serious time on our hands, we'll do some research and try to learn about how and why lot lines were drawn when city blocks were established back in the 19th century. Was it good city planning back then to make lots as large as possible? To keep

We first visited the 2500 block of W. Oxford Street back in 2017, and for a host of reasons, this feels like it was instead thirty years ago. Back then, this block felt like it was very far away from the development boom to the south in Brewerytown, due to

It had been a minute since we'd visited Brewerytown, so when we found ourselves in the neighborhood the other day, we meandered a bit, looking for any new projects. We happened upon a few, including some initial site work on 26th Street, just south of Oxford. The 1500 block of

Turn back the clock a decade, and the 2800 block of Cecil B. Moore Ave. was in pretty rough shape. After many years of disinvestment, it was littered with blighted buildings and vacant lots, and it didn't seem likely that anything would be changing any time soon.Then Brewerytown happened. Over the

You may recall, last week we did an update on a significant development in Brewerytown, a collection of duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes replacing a surface parking lot on 27th Street. The buildings making up the first phase of the project have frontage on 27th Street and they're now finished and mostly

As Brewerytown has transformed over the last decade, some blocks have changed more than others. Especially on the western end of the neighborhood, huge vacant swaths have turned over, with the construction of a shopping center with a supermarket and numerous apartment buildings (we see you, Westrum). The changes on the