In Brewerytown

We brought 2221 N College Ave. to your attention a couple years ago, noting the unusual triangular shape of the building and the fact that it looked like death warmed over. At the time, we told you that a developer had purchased the building back in 2012 and had begun

The 3000 block of W. Cabot Street is getting there. If we turn back the clock to 2011, we find a mere ten homes on this little Brewerytown block, with 60% of those homes blighted and vacant (that's 6 out of 10, for those bad at mental math).Back in 2011At

The 2800 block of West Girard has seen some major changes over the last several years, with several businesses opening up and adding new vibrancy to the commercial corridor. Offhand, we can think of Rybrew, Spot Burger, and Monkey & the Elephant as food businesses that have appeared in recent

A reader reached out recently and gave us the heads up about some construction that recently got underway on N. College Avenue, less than a block off of Ridge. Even though this reader has a wonderful Instagram account called Genbrewerytown that follows development around Brewerytown, we were in the area

Westrum Development was a pioneer in Brewerytown construction, building the Brewerytown Square project a little over a decade ago on a block-sized parcel that had been sitting vacant for decades. For years after, Brewerytown Square was on something of an island, surrounded by tons of vacancy. Since the market began

We were passing through Brewerytown the other day and noticed the back of a blighted building on Marston Street through a vacant lot on 27th Street.Blight seen through a vacant lot on 27th StreetTurning the corner, we immediately remembered that we had written about this block previously, a little over

We got an email from a reader recently, telling us about a potential development opportunity at the edge of Brewerytown. The property, 2414 W. Thompson St., is currently listed for sale for $125K and is probably priced a little on the high side but could indeed represent a worthwhile investment for the right

In Brewerytown, development has been a bit of a slow burn over the last few years, though of late the neighborhood has seen a burst of activity. And there are several significant projects in the pipeline for 2017, so perhaps Brewerytown is picking up some serious momentum. Like the neighborhood,

We were peering at the L&I Map last week, and that's how we discovered the plans to demolish the warehouse at 30th & Thompson and replace it with a 40-unit apartment building. Shortly before or after, we spied some additional permits on the 2900 block of Master Street and figured

In the summer of 2013, we told you about a one-story warehouse at 2940 W. Thompson St., and expressed that it would be an attractive real estate investment. We weren't so enthralled with the building itself, we instead imagined the building's demolition and 7 new townhomes or a creative multi-family