In Northern Liberties

It's undeniable that Northern Liberties has improved by leaps and bounds in the last decade. Vacant land has disappeared. Blighted buildings have been reborn. And while opinions are somewhat mixed on the newfangled, Disney-esque developments like Liberties Walk and the Piazza, the residents and businesses that have been drawn to the

About a year and a half ago, a state-owned liquor store moved from their uninspired digs at Germantown & Girard into a huge and impressive space a block away, under the still-newish Superfresh next to the Piazza. It's not that the store's layout or its selection were bad per se (at least by

Years ago, Anthony Travia came before NLNA with plans to build a large home at 956 N. American St., a vacant lot near Liberty Lands Park. Looking at the group's minutes from back in 2009, it seems that the community didn't support the project because it didn't have the required

Over the winter, we told you about plans for the construction of thirty new homes at 1108 N. Front St., the site of a warehouse fire a year ago. The warehouse, owned by Tower Investments, was a blighted property that was horrible to look at and must have been even

Over a year ago, we told you about plans to build the first truly net zero homes in Philadelphia on the site of an old seafood warehouse in Northern Liberties. Passing by the corner of 4th & Brown the other day, we noticed that the project appears to now be moving forward,

Around Halloween, we brought you news of the impending demolition of two existing buildings at 927-29 N. Orianna St., to be replaced by two new homes with an interesting solution to ever-present parking concerns. This project is from the folks at Callhan Ward, with design work by Fishtank PHL. Both the developers

Last week, we updated you on the progress of three developments on the 800 block of N. Lawrence St., and noted that there were still other projects in that area that we would cover soon. Well today we have some info on one such project, located at 829-35 N. Leithgow

This week, we told you about the ribbon cutting at the first section of the Delaware River Trail, running from Spring Garden Street to the Sugarhouse parking lot. While we were there, we spotted some significant construction activity across the street.

Next door to the Penn Treaty Village Pennthouses, Core Realty

Yesterday, we passed along some new info about three projects under construction on the 800 block of Lawrence Street. And today, we have some updates about a couple of projects around the corner, right near a recently demolished warehouse at the corner of 5th & Poplar. As we told you

We were on our way to snap some photos of the new Penn Street section of the Delaware River Trail the other day, and as we headed east on Brown Street some new homes caught our eye. Circling back around, we realized that three separate projects we've previously told you about