In Northern Liberties

Just a month ago, we told you that Post Brothers had plans to demolish the middle section of Liberties Walk and replace it with a new mixed-use building with 76 units over retail and basement parking. Toward the end of the story, we also noted that the third (westernmost) Liberties

Destination Maternity is, according to Wikipedia, the largest designer of and retailer for maternity clothes in the world. Somewhat surprisingly, Destination Maternity was based for years in Philadelphia, in a large building at 5th & Spring Garden. In 2013, the company moved to New Jersey, leaving a sizable hole in the

Running between 2nd and 3rd Streets and connected by a pedestrian-only path, Liberties Walk arrived on the scene about fifteen years ago, around the time the Piazza was constructed across the street. It's sort of charming but also kind of disarming, with a Disney-ish prepackaged vibe that never really meshed with

If you've tried to travel down 2nd Street in Northern Liberties at any point in the last little while, you've probably had a hard time. It's a mess just south of Girard, where the street is closed as three sizable projects are all under construction at the same time. At 1115 N.

We've always been a little confounded by the property at 342 W. Girard Ave., which you might know as the home of Trios Pizza. This parcel is quite large, covering over 8,000 sqft, but the building on the property covers only about half of the land, with the rest used

The Aretz family moved to N. 4th Street in 1995, at a time that Northern Liberties looked rather different than it does today. The Piazza was still years away. 700 Club and Standard Tap hadn't yet opened their doors, and the first show at the Fire wouldn't happen for four more years.

We were making our way through Northern Liberties the other day and stopped in our tracks as we approached the corner of 4th & Poplar. 907 N. 4th St. has been a vacant lot for a very long time, decades at least, but a new home has appeared here in

918 N. Delaware Ave. has historically been a rather unassuming, if enormous property on the edge of Northern Liberties. This parcel has a tremendous amount of frontage on Delaware Avenue and then curves around in the rear along Canal Street, making for a property that's shaped like a ski slope.

We were in the area recently (dropping off a mail-in ballot, if you must know), and we were pleased to see some nice progress on a new apartment building just north of Front & Spring Garden. A little more than three years ago, we told you that developers had purchased the little

The building at 1150 N. 4th St. was originally constructed as Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, dating back to the end of the 19th century. According to historical maps, the building transitioned to housing a "Singing Society" in the mid-1900s, but more recently it has gone back to being a