In Manayunk

Housing development may have slowed across Philadelphia of late, but that's not really the case in Manayunk, where good sized residential and mixed-use projects along the Main Street corridor continue securing approvals to redevelop former industrial sites near the Schuylkill River. But sometimes the approval process takes quite some time and
Read MoreManayunk Hookah Lounge up in Smoke, Bar Will Take Its Place
11 February, 2025 | No Comments | Manayunk
We've covered a few big projects along Manayunk's Main Street recently, but last week at a meeting of the Manayunk Neighborhood Council we learned of another upcoming change for this commercial corridor. Vira Hookah Lounge at 4219 Main St. is permanently shutting down to make room for a new bar
Read MoreRevised Manayunk Dyeworks Project Prepares for Civic Design Review
14 January, 2025 | No Comments | ManayunkOwners of former industrial sites in Manayunk building residential mixed-use projects was a story we covered frequently in 2024, and from the looks of it that trend will continue in the new year. At the very least, things are continuing to progress at 4045 Main St. since our visit last
Read MoreManayunk is a neighborhood where people want to live, with its rolling hills, active commercial corridor, and location between downtown and the 'burbs. The neighborhood was once home to a bunch of mills which are, needless to say, no longer in operation. We've seen several former mills get redeveloped over
Read MoreStop us if you've heard this story before: a developer wants to turn a former industrial site near the Manayunk waterfront into a mixed-use building.Longtime readers will note that we've been covering the gradual conversion of the land-use along the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal for years. Just a
Read MoreLooking to avoid some traffic on I-76 the other day, we found ourselves in Manayunk, where some ongoing construction at 4050 Main St. caught our eye. The building at this address has been sitting vacant for the last few years, and was most recently home to a furniture store called
Read MoreThe Keystone Mill has stood at 201 Leverington Ave. since 1887, when the shoddy mill - which was not poorly built, but manufactured rough wool from old fabric and rags - was built for the Johnston family (Fun fact: the original home for the family's mill was at the SE
Read MoreLittlewood & Co., Dyers and Bleachers had been operating at the complex of buildings at 4045-61 Main St. since the 1860s. Sitting just past Manayunk's main entertainment and commercial strip, you may actually be familiar with this hodgepodge of structures if you've strolled along this stretch in the past. While
Read MoreFourth Time Around? New Look, More Units for Roxborough Apartments
16 November, 2023 | No Comments | ManayunkTo say that no two real estate development projects are alike would be quite the understatement. Some are smooth sailing, some are jam-packed with unforeseen issues. For some, the completed structure looks exactly like the very first design that's proposed. For others, like 6174 Ridge Ave. in Roxborough, the design
Read MoreWe just can't seem to rip ourselves away from Roxborough, where there is an abundance of development taking place of varying shapes and sizes. Much of this development is happening along Ridge Ave., where everything from new, mid-rise apartment buildings to small multi-family to gorgeous adaptive reuse is in the
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