Fletcher Street runs north-ish by south-ish through Fishtown, though it disappears and reappears repeatedly as you trek through the neighborhood. By the time we found the 1200 block of Fletcher Street, right off of Girard Ave., we’d made three wrong turns and almost ended up on I-95. We did eventually find 1238 E. Fletcher St., the empty lot we were looking for, a block off of Girard Ave.

There it is

Blue Truck Ents LLC purchased this lot at the end of last year for $82K, and are intending to build two homes on this 18’x100′ lot. According to their zoning application, they have plans for two four-story homes that are on the taller side for the neighborhood, one of which will front Fletcher Street and the other that will front Colona Street.

The vacant lot on the right

Now it's the vacant lot on the left

According to a neighbor’s report on the FNA zoning meeting regarding this project on Fishtown.us, the community supported the project 12-10, but near neighbors opposed this project 1-7. The problem that the neighbors apparently had with this project had to do with the height, and some were concerned that the Fletcher Street property would eventually become a duplex.

The project goes before the ZBA next week, and we shall see what happens.