In Northern Liberties

The intersection of 7th & Fairmount has seen some excitement of late, and there's more on the horizon. Remember last summer, a new Federal Donuts location opened up on the northeast corner, replacing a shuttered corner store. It's a really nice looking place, and the donuts are pretty good too.
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Over the years, we've visited the 400 block of Fairmount a few times, and we've already seen some changes take place. Notably, Callahan Ward built three homes with parking on a deep lot at 444-48 Fairmount Ave., getting an extra home in the project by orienting the homes toward a
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If you were to look at a map of Northern Liberties, and on this map include new development projects since 2013 alone, you would see projects at various levels on so many blocks. Such consistent development points to an ongoing trend in the neighborhood where you'd be hard-pressed to walk more
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A one-off project on the alley-sized 400 block of Myrtle Street is one of many projects in a few blocks radius in Northern Liberties. The 5th & Poplar intersection is one we've covered a great deal, and in the past few years, dozens of units have come online in the area.Myrtle
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When Tower Investments built the Piazza several years ago, they capped the northern end of the development with the Rialto building, a seven story commercial building with a restaurant on the ground floor. At the time we thought it was a swell idea, and we thought that commercial tenants would
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Paesano's in Northern Liberties is on the move—only a small relocation, just next door, acutally. The Northern Liberties Neighbors Association approved plans to move the sandwich shop two doors down to a newly constructed building at 148-50 W Girard Ave., a project we first told you about over two years
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Traipsing through Northern Liberties last week, we came upon a row of six homes that we'd never noticed before. They caught our attention not because of their unique architecture (they look boring) or because they're a new addition to the neighborhood landscape (they aren't), but because of the sign outside
Read MoreNew Home Coming in Northern Liberties, Hidden Away
15 December, 2014 | No Comments | Northern Liberties
Two months ago, when we last visited New Market Street in Northern Liberties, we updated you on a couple of projects currently under construction. Since then, the three new homes under construction at the corner of New Market & Laurel have progressed some outside, and we imagine they've gotten quite a
Read MoreRenovation and Construction Coming at 4th & Fairmount
1 December, 2014 | No Comments | Northern Liberties
In Northern Liberties, the blocks near the corner of 4th & Fairmount are in the midst of big changes. Last winter, we told you about the planned conversion of the former TransAtlantic Warehouse on Fairmount Avenue into 48 apartments, and a couple of weeks ago we told you about new homes under construction
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Marshall Street between Poplar and Girard was once a bustling commercial corridor, full of shops and pushcarts like the Italian Market. Philaplace gives a lovely telling of the history of this stretch, and explains that a combination of white flight and a redevelopment plan from the 1950s that never came
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