In Fishtown

After meeting as music students at the University of the Arts (RIP), Joe Lockwood and Morgan Walbridge dreamed of opening a music studio even as they pursued professional pursuits at the Kimmel Center, U Arts, and Temple. Upon moving to Fishtown in 2021, the couple built a recording studio on

Liberty Choice has been operating out of a space at 1939 N. Front St. for over a decade, providing the community with a convenient local grocery store, plus some "choice" breakfast and lunch offerings. Regrettably, their time at this location is at an end, as developers have purchased the property

Even as residential permitting numbers are hitting lows we haven't seen since the Great Recession, we've seen new attention for overlooked parcels near I-95 in the River Wards. This makes particular sense in Fishtown, where the most attractive development sites have generally been redeveloped by now. Some of these projects

Saint Laurentius Church was built at 1600 E. Berks St. in 1882 and served as a house of worship for over 130 years, until it was shuttered by the Archdiocese in 2013. Though there were plans to maintain the building as a site for major religious events, the City soon deemed

When we recently checked out a new apartment building on the 1100 block of E Berks St., we predicted more development would soon be coming down the pike in this pocket. We mentioned the warehouse next door being for sale, so we figured that it would be the next victim,

We tend to focus on larger projects here at Naked Philly, but sometimes a smaller proposal grabs our attention just because it looks cool. And that's exactly the case with a three story mixed-use building at 329 E. Girard Ave. that came before the ZBA last week.While Frankford Avenue gets

Though the 1100 block of E. Berks St. was historically a residential street, Heclyn Precision Gear Company built a small factory and warehouse at 1112-16 E. Berks St. back in the late 1960s. We don't think it's a coincidence that this building was constructed right around the time that I-95

If you're anything like us, you took a bunch of walks around town over the holidays. Getting more steps in is always one of our New Year's resolutions, so we took the opportunity to stroll around Fishtown last week, right before the calendar flipped. One building we noticed on said

We've spent plenty of time over the years covering the transformation of the 1500 block of Frankford Avenue, but have never written about 1500 Frankford Ave., one of the more controversial properties in this pocket of Fishtown. After years of racking up L&I violations, the local Fishtown BID moved to

It's hard to imagine, but the Delaware waterfront was once a massive industrial hub, home to factories, warehouses, shipping concerns, and so forth. Just about all the industry is now gone from the waterfront in the areas around Center City, though vestiges of this industrial history have hung around for