In Northern Liberties

While all of the stops on the previous (and future) legs of our development tour featured large projects, today we're looking at a project so big that it pretty much creates a new neighborhood. Piazza Alta includes several buildings, adding 1,131 units to the large Piazza complex. Though the address

Last week, we covered the first leg of our six-part series chronicling some of the construction taking place in the northeast quadrant of Greater Center City. Today we shuffle a bit to the east, where things are booming in what we're calling Upper Northern Liberties, as "Northern Northern Liberties" is

Formerly home to the Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Company dating back to the 1890s, the historically designated complex at 500 N. Columbus Blvd. is currently home to a self-storage facility, warehouse space, and electronic music venue The AVE. Despite the hulking mass of these brick-heavy buildings, there are two

It is no secret that Northern Liberties is one of the most development-heavy areas in the entire city, with huge projects sprouting up from the northeastern corner to the southernmost reaches of the neighborhood. All told, over 5,000+ units are planned over the coming years, necessitating a reimagining of the

It was May of last year when we told you about the huge plans from National Real Estate Development and Kushner Real Estate Group, which would revitalize a sad length of 2nd Street between Spring Garden and Callowhill. National is the team that brought us the nearly complete East Market

Here at Naked Philly, we try to maintain a positive perspective in the face of demolition, inappropriate land use, uninspired design, and/or imperfect construction resulting from value engineering. This isn't always easy or fun, but we understand that the realities of real estate investment and development may lead to some

The east side of Callowhill Street is not always the most welcoming of avenues, but Gift of Life Howie's House is one very notable exception to the rule. No, this is not Eagles' GM Howie Roseman's abode (Note: Go Birds), but a facility that was completed in 2011 that offers

As major streets go, N. Front Street between the Ben Franklin Bridge and approximately Laurel St. is quite an unusual stretch. The thoroughfare acts more as an alley in this area, with Belgian block streets and a mix of residential and commercial buildings forming a sometimes-uninviting presence. Though new row

There has been a huge amount of action along the border of Northern Liberties and East Poplar, especially around the 7th & Fairmount intersection. On the Poplar side, we visited the Franklin Court rowhome project back in 2016 that is now wrapped up. On the NoLibs side, a laundromat has

It was just the other week when we made our way to the corner of 5th & Spring Garden in Northern Liberties, where a 300+ unit apartment tower appears on the verge of getting started on the southeast corner. Immediately catty-corner, a project we checked on back in February is