In Northern Liberties

Last week, we told you about a couple of grants that recently came through for projects along the Delaware River. Today, we have news about the completion of the first quarter-mile of the Delaware River Trail, a path along the river that will ultimately extend over a five-mile stretch of

An old warehouse at 5th & Poplar has been razed to make way for twenty-one new homes in Northern Liberties. Developers pursued a somewhat lengthy process with the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) before the group agreed to support the project this spring. The fact that demolition has now taken place gives

Tendrilescence is the name of an early artistic lighting concept for the still-being-planned Spring Garden Connector. That and additional plans for streetscape improvements under the I-95 Spring Garden Street overpass were presented at a public meeting hosted by Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) on May 29th.

Like the Columbia Avenue Connector we told

Whenever we've passed by 850 N. 4th St. previously, we wondered exactly what the builders were thinking when they set the homes back so far from 4th Street. Were they offering their buyers a chance for some added privacy? Were they hoping that folks would appreciate what was essentially a

After developers spent several months refining their project with the local civic group, more development is planned on Front Street along the shadow of I-95 in Northern Liberties. In April, members of the Northern Liberties Neighbors Association (NLNA) zoning committee approved a proposal for eight single family homes at 933-37 Front St., a

When we last checked in at the corner of Bodine & Green late last year, NLNA was asking developer David Perlman to reduce the number of units planned, provide additional details on his project, and make some small design changes as well. It seems that the community and the developer were able

Plans for new businesses along the 2nd Street business corridor in Northern Liberties are coming in as if someone was counting them off, six, seven, all we need is eight since we already have nine. We're talking blocks, of course.

Since April, there have been new proposals put before the Northern Liberties

Last winter, we first brought the AA Fence building, located at 924-28 New Market St., to your attention. We wondered about its history, and a couple of commenters helped fill in the blanks. The building dates back to at least the 1850s as a Baptist Church. For about a hundred

We recently wondered when more of the vacant retail spaces along the seemingly thriving North 2nd Street in Northern Liberties would find new tenants. In early March, we shared the news of a proposal for a new cafe at 708 N. 2nd St. Those plans have since been approved and

We've never been particularly fond of the aesthetic of Liberties Walk in Northern Liberties- it's always felt a little too Disney to us. But we would, on the other hand, posit that this development has had a rather positive effect on the neighborhood, giving it a concentrated mixed-use corridor to