Back in September of 2021, we told you that developers were planning a 196-unit project along the river on what was then a surface parking lot next to Rivers Casino in Fishtown at 933 North Penn Street. We finally have an update on the project. The development has decreased in unit count by 1 and Read more about 195-Unit Project Breaks Ground in Fishtown. Will Replace a Surface Parking Lot[…]
We’ve recently told you about several large projects that are under construction north of Spring Garden Street along Delaware Avenue. We also just alerted you that a 78-unit project was approved at Frankford and Delaware Avenue across from the casino. Delaware Avenue is finally beginning to have its modern heyday in the Riverwards and is Read more about 182-Unit Project Breaks Ground in Fishtown Near Penn Treaty Park[…]
Fishtown has been going through a development boom over the last decade with mixed-use, multifamily, and single family home properties being constructed throughout the area. Over this time, Fishtown has become one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Philadelphia – attracting a ton of new residents and some of the best restaurants in the city. Read more about 78-Unit, Mixed-Use Project Approved in Fishtown[…]
It’s been a long road to construction for the former surface parking lot at 1351-59 Frankford Avenue just north of La Colombe in Fishtown. A zoning permit was issued for a 33-unit, mixed-use development on the site way back in 2015. Then, in 2019, plans shifted to a 5-story project with ground floor commercial space Read more about 61-Unit, Mixed-Use Project Breaks Ground in Fishtown on Frankford Avenue[…]
Just over two years ago, we told you that developers were seeking a variance to build a 21-unit, mixed-use building along Lee Street on the back part of the parcel at 1324 Frankford Avenue. At the time, they were building a 50-unit project at 1324 Frankford. The development team ended up getting the variance for Read more about 20-Unit, Mixed-Use Building Under Construction in Fishtown[…]
About four years ago, news broke that a new home for West Collection, a contemporary art collection assembled by SEI Investments founder Alfred West and his daughter Paige West, would be built in Fishtown on the site of an old warehouse and piece of vacant land at 1115-27 Frankford Avenue. At the time, little details Read more about Work Has Begun on Fishtown Contemporary Art Museum[…]
If you take the El along Front Street through Northern Liberties, Fishtown, and Kensington today, it seems like every other property is under construction or a newly completed building. Just 7 or so years ago, this would have seemed unfathomable with a ton of blight and a void of commercial spaces along this strip. Today, Read more about 63-Unit, Mixed-Use Building Rising in Fishtown[…]
Back in April of 2019, we told you that four buildings at 1538 through 1544 Frankford Avenue were being sold as a package and imagined that they would be purchased by a developer and demolished to make way for a new mixed-use building. The buildings sold shortly after that and the development team went through Read more about 12-Unit, Mixed-Use Building Under Construction on Frankford Ave in Fishtown[…]
Last week, we told you that the 470-unit Festival Pier redevelopment and a 466-unit project right across the street on the site of a former Greyhound bus terminal were both under construction. That’s 936 homes getting built right on the same block. Well, these are not the only massive projects under construction on this strip. Read more about 462-Unit, Mixed-Use Project Under Construction on Border of Fishtown and Northern Liberties[…]
One of the largest undeveloped parcels in Fishtown has sat unchanged along the neighborhood’s main commercial corridor as the properties surrounding it have been developed into new homes and commercial spaces. 1120 Frankford Avenue, until recently, was an unpaved parking lot situated just north of Barcade and just south of Girard Avenue. Although a lot Read more about 107-Unit, Mixed-Use Building Breaks Ground in Fishtown on Frankford Avenue[…]