In Northern Liberties

We were incredibly pleased when we saw that a developer would be presenting a project to the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association to redevelop 600 N. 5th St. because we believed that this address corresponded with the shopping center at 5th & Spring Garden. You may recall, we once called this fortress-like structure

If you've passed by 2nd & Green lately, you've surely noticed that two extra stories have appeared atop the building on the northwest corner. We actually covered this building once before several years ago, when Novacare Rehabilitation was planning to open a location on the first floor.In the pastWe initially

Back in the day, the Wilson & Sons carpet binding factory covered a large parcel just south of Cambridge Street, between Orianna and 4th Streets. Some time after the factory shut down, the rear portion on Orianna Street was demolished and just a few years ago, developers built a row

Northern Liberties is a hot neighborhood, in case you haven't heard. It's been that way for the last few years, in fact, with home prices shooting up and demand for development sites increasing dramatically. With that in mind, it's no surprise that developers have increasingly been looking at unorthodox properties

A couple of readers have reached out recently, wondering about some major renovation work taking place at a hundred plus year old warehouse building in Northern Liberties. We were under the impression that 1136 N. American St. had been converted to apartments several years ago, like the Becker Building next

When we last visited the one-story commercial building at 723 N. 6th St. in January, snow covered the ground and new owners were preparing for their first presentation to the community. Their plans called for the demolition of the building and the construction of a five-story structure with 30 apartments

A century ago, the 900 block of Marshall Street was home to a bustling outdoor market, with hundreds of pushcart vendors hawking all manner of products. By the time the 1960s rolled around, the changing neighborhood and the threat of an urban renewal plan meant an end to the pushcarts

Zipping down Delaware Avenue today, definitively not on our way to Sugarhouse, a billboard advertising a real estate auction stopped us in our tracks.Sign that caught our attentionIn case you can't get a good look from the sign, it's announcing that a 65K sqft parcel with CMX-3 zoning is going

It was just a few days ago that we told you about a Fishtown church getting converted into a funky office space for a structural engineering firm. At the time, we commented that it seems we rarely cover construction or renovations for new office space. And yet here we are

As we were zipping up 3rd Street yesterday, a sign on a one-story garage at 722 N. 3rd St. caught our eye. It's not so common that we cover the planned construction of a one-off home, but when the developers are kind enough to post a sign with a rendering,