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 rubble foretold better things. If you visit the site today, however, the rubble is as long gone as the snow. Instead, nine homes fronting Orkney Street have been framed out.
The homes will be large and fancy, according to the project website (like it would say otherwise!). Look for 2,600 to 3,000 sqft of living space with home widths between nineteen and twenty-one feet. Each home will also have rear-access, two-car parking, accessed via a curb cut on Lawrence Street. No idea how that will work when the Lawrence Street homes get built as the second phase of the project, but it won't be an issue long-term. Look for the first run of homes to finish in the spring. Check out these renderings, which are a different look than the renderings we showed by before.
Also, this site plan should really give you an idea of how the whole thing will come together, and has some additional details on the range of homes in the project.
This project is par for the course these days in Northern Liberties, where we've seen several major residential projects crop up in the last few years. Earlier today even, we mentioned The Stables just a few blocks to the north, which is adding a couple dozen new homes to the neighborhood. Add in some other major projects on 5th Street with a more yet to come, and it's a tidal wave of new homes for the neighborhood. It'll surely slow down eventually (there's only so much land after all), but at this moment it feels like it never will.