In Fishtown

Last summer, we told you about plans for the construction of seven new town homes at 624 E. Flora St., a long vacant lot. Over the last several months, two of the seven have gone up, and they look like they're just about finished.

As you can see, these homes, designed

In recent years, the 1800 block of Frankford Ave. has undergone various improvements, like many other blocks of this corridor. With new businesses opening up, old structures being reconditioned, and vacant land turning into new buildings, Frankford Avenue swinging like the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Perhaps the biggest story of late on

On the Fishtown-Kensington border, there are a few projects to speak of these days under the El, like the ongoing adaptive reuse of an old warehouse at Front & Oxford and the recently renovated former distillery a few blocks to the south. With those projects in mind, plus a few others proposed

We keep telling you about all the good stuff coming to Frankford Avenue. But we don't want you to think that we're just giving news about projects that get proposed but never built, ya know? So here are a couple of updates on some major new projects coming to this

Head up the 2000 block of E. Arizona St., and you'll find a couple of homes, some converted warehouses, some vacant land, and what look like shuttered garages. But soon enough, those garages, which currently look awful, will disappear into the ether. In their place will rise four new homes.

According

In March of 2012, we told you about plans for five new homes next to Palmer Park, on a triangular piece of land bordered by Memphis, Orange, and Earl Streets. Back then, a one-story triangular warehouse stood on this site, but that building is now history.

While the triangular building above

Over a year ago, we told you about plans to renovate 1355 N Front St., which was at that time both vacant and rough looking. Located right next to the El, this former distillery was to become a mixed-use building, with apartments located above a commercial space of some kind. As

As Frankford Avenue continues to turn over, retail opportunities continue to crop up. One example is a retail space at 1600 Frankford Ave. which was renovated this year to install larger windows and make the spot more attractive to potential tenants. Back in March, we told you that the owners

Some time ago, we told you about a partially constructed building at 2030-32 E Dauphin St. that was going up for sheriff's sale. We explained that the ten-unit building with parking could be yours, provided you could come up with like half a million bucks and a few hundred thou more to

Frankford Avenue in Fishtown has been filling in with so many new businesses over the past few years, and even more so in the past six months, that soon it might look like the South Street West.

Today, we share with you news about the space now being built out, according