In Northern Liberties

When we think of 3rd & Brown, the first thing that comes to mind is North 3rd, a Northern Liberties restaurant stalwart that's been holding down the northeast corner for a long time. We don't know exactly when this place opened, but we know we celebrated New Years there back

In its industrial heyday, Northern Liberties was a mix of warehouses, factories, and homes for the people that made Philadelphia the Workshop of the World. We're not telling you anything that you don't know when we say that industry has almost entirely dried up in Northern Liberties, as gentrification has

Girard Avenue, 2nd Street, and Germantown Avenue form a large triangle that's one of the more curiously underdeveloped properties in Northern Liberties. Collectively, all the properties here cover a little over an acre, but there are only two buildings on the site. One is paint store at the corner of

We're pretty sure that the building at 1132 N. Front St. was originally part of the Dougherty distillery, which operated on this block through the beginning of the 20th century, according to Hidden City. In later years, the building was used as a spice factory, though for at least the last

We were looking throught the zoning calendar for this month and we were surprised to see that the property at 614 N. Front St. is scheduled for a ZBA hearing in the coming weeks. Currently, this double wide property is half one-story building and half two-story building, though we couldn't

A little over a year ago, we checked in on three properties on 2nd Street in Northern Liberties and felt optimistic that we'd soon see all of them developed. Some time has passed, and now seems like as good a time as any to check in, especially since two of

A new addition has appeared on Laurel Street in Northern Liberties, representing the second phase of a project that began over a decade ago. According to a story in Arch Daily, Capital Meats was located at 144-158 W. Laurel St. for about 80 years, closing in 1989. After the business

Northern Liberties was once a hub of industry, but only a handful of industrial businesses remain in the neighborhood as it has swung aggressively toward residential development over the last decade plus. And as land has become more valuable, we've seen some of the exodus first hand, with a notable

We were cruising through Northern Liberties last week, daydreaming of warmer weather, when a zoning notice caught our eye from a distance. There's a small vacant lot at 231 W. Wildey St. which is surrounded by a wooden fence decorated by images of flowers that look like roses to us.

We've visited Marshall Street between Poplar and Girard a couple times over the years and have seen some major improvement in a very short amount of time. As we've told you before, this street was the heart of the Jewish pushcart market back in the early 1900s but has been