In Fishtown

A couple of readers have recently asked us about progress at Hagert Square, Fishtown's newest "gated community," located at the corner of Hagert & Gaul. The last time we checked in on this project was back in November, when framing was underway for the fifteen homes fronting Hagert Street, and

Over the winter, we checked in on the 26th Precinct Police Station on Trenton Avenue, noting that a long-anticipated renovation was almost complete. At that time, residents had begun to move into the building, but the promised bank on the first floor had not yet appeared. But wouldn't you know,

While we were out taking photos in Fishtown the other day, we chanced upon a blighted building and a vacant lot at the corner of Thompson & Colona. Plants climb from the ground to the roof in between the small yard and an evergreen colored fence is painted with what

A couple of months ago, we told you about two homes that would be rising at 2037-39 Blair St., behind a planned mixed-use building on Frankford Avenue. This block of Blair Street isn't the best in the neighborhood, with mostly two-story homes on one side of the street and vacant land

Over the winter, we told you about two new foundations right off the corner of Frankford & Montgomery, next door to a building that went up in 2011. These square-shaped homes were being built on the rear of a huge Frankford Ave. lot that was being chopped up into three

In Fishtown, the 1300 block of E. Berks Street runs between Belgrade and E. Thompson Street, just a couple of blocks from Girard. A microcosm of Fishtown development, it’s a block where contemporary homes are mixed-in with traditional brick row homes. Some newer buildings on the block include 1315 and

Over a year ago, we first told you about the possible rehab of the former REACH baseball factory at the intersection of Tulip & Palmer in Fishtown. And after last week, it seems more likely than ever that this currently blighted building will soon house people instead of baseballs.  The project

In Fishtown, a longtime owner is trading his roses for rooms. For years, the lot at 300 E. Girard Ave. has served as a rose garden for its owner, leaving a curious gap at the southeastern corner of Girard & Marlborough. But now the owner plans to construct a building

Just yesterday, as we finished our third post about Northern Liberties in four days, we speculated that development would start to spread from this neighborhood to the north and west in the years to come. Going unmentioned was that development has already spread like crazy from Northern Liberties in a

While new playground improvements are scheduled for Penn Treaty Park, the Fishtown waterfront park at Columbia and Delaware Avenue immediately north of Sugarhouse, the improvements are only part of a larger long-term redevelopment plan envisioned for the park where William Penn signed a treaty with the Lenni-Lenape Indians in the