In Northern Liberties

As we're sometimes wont to do, we were meandering around some of the lesser known streets in Northern Liberties this week, looking for some projects that are perhaps off the beaten path. This is a great neighborhood for such wandering, chock full of blocks that stop and start. And there's

With the growth of Northern Liberties on one side and South Kensington on the other, a bunch of new buildings have risen and some others are in the works on the West Girard corridor. In addition, some older buildings have been renovated, attracting new businesses. By the time you get

Front Street north of Fairmount in Northern Liberties is in the middle of a series of big changes. We took a walk in the area last week to check up on the changing face of Front Street here, from industrial to residential.To start, right away at Front & Fairmount, construction

It's possible you've never heard of New Market Street in Northern Liberties, though we've written about it on several occasions. A north-south street between Front and 2nd Streets, it once stretched from Spring Garden Street to Germantown Avenue, but the construction of I-95 consumed most of it, chopping off everything

A couple days ago, after we enjoyed a coffee at One Shot and after we noticed the finished construction next door which is now home to DnA Salon, we headed south down American Street and spied a little more construction activity. At 1004 N. American St., a kind of unfortunate

Months ago, we told you about plans for seventeen new homes on the 800 blocks of Lawrence and Orkney Streets in Northern Liberties. Back then, the warehouse that was once home to Marcis Wire Works had just been demolished at 812-32 N. Lawrence St., and a snow covered pile of

It seems like the area near One Shot Cafe has been a major construction zone forever. The Stables project, which will eventually include dozens of new construction homes, started a couple of years ago and recently came back to life in a big way after a lengthy lull. The building

Building has long been the word in Northern Liberties, where you'd struggle to throw a football from any down and hit a vacant lot nowadays. With all the new building has come all sort of new retail. Now, at least for a brief moment, the word is park. Park, not

It's been almost three years since we first visited the 1100 block of N. Hope St. in Northern Liberties. Back then, it was a miserable block highlighted by a collection of empty lots and a vacant and blighted warehouse. NLNA Zoning Committee chair Larry Freeman said at the time, “You’re not

Well this is embarrassing. We could have sworn we told you about plans for new homes at 609 N. 3rd St. at some point in the past. But alas, we never did. So today we're trying to make amends with some details on a project that's already under construction.Remember earlier