In Northern Liberties

If you've tried to travel down 2nd Street in Northern Liberties at any point in the last little while, you've probably had a hard time. It's a mess just south of Girard, where the street is closed as three sizable projects are all under construction at the same time. At 1115 N.

We've always been a little confounded by the property at 342 W. Girard Ave., which you might know as the home of Trios Pizza. This parcel is quite large, covering over 8,000 sqft, but the building on the property covers only about half of the land, with the rest used

The Aretz family moved to N. 4th Street in 1995, at a time that Northern Liberties looked rather different than it does today. The Piazza was still years away. 700 Club and Standard Tap hadn't yet opened their doors, and the first show at the Fire wouldn't happen for four more years.

We were making our way through Northern Liberties the other day and stopped in our tracks as we approached the corner of 4th & Poplar. 907 N. 4th St. has been a vacant lot for a very long time, decades at least, but a new home has appeared here in

918 N. Delaware Ave. has historically been a rather unassuming, if enormous property on the edge of Northern Liberties. This parcel has a tremendous amount of frontage on Delaware Avenue and then curves around in the rear along Canal Street, making for a property that's shaped like a ski slope.

We were in the area recently (dropping off a mail-in ballot, if you must know), and we were pleased to see some nice progress on a new apartment building just north of Front & Spring Garden. A little more than three years ago, we told you that developers had purchased the little

The building at 1150 N. 4th St. was originally constructed as Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, dating back to the end of the 19th century. According to historical maps, the building transitioned to housing a "Singing Society" in the mid-1900s, but more recently it has gone back to being a

Though it may seem these days like everyone and their brother is a real estate developer, it's actually a pretty risky way to make a living. As we've described many times over the years, the zoning process introduces a tremendous amount of risk to any development, adding a layer of community

We first drew your attention to the terrible Liberty Shopping Plaza at 501 Spring Garden St. waaaaay back in 2011. At the time, we likened this shopping center to a jail for stores and offered a recommendation to tear it down and start over at this prominent location. More recently, we revisited

By all accounts, the Delaware River waterfront should be one of the most attractive parts of Philadelphia. And yet, for a host of reasons, that ain't the case. We'd contend that I-95 has been the primary limiting factor for development along the waterfront over the last several decades, cutting the water off from the