Northern Liberties
Located north of Center City and is bordered by Girard Avenue to the north; Callowhill Street to the south; North 6th Street to the west; and the Delaware River to the east (from Callowhill Street to Laurel Street; from Laurel Street to Girard Avenue the eastern boundary is North Front Street). The historical boundaries are the same, except that instead of Girard Avenue, the northern boundary was the Cohocksink Creek, which now flows as a storm sewer under the following streets: (starting at the Delaware River and running from southeast to northwest: Canal, Laurel, Bodine, Cambridge, & Orkney Streets).
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This meat company is named after its original owner, who delivered meats by horse-drawn carriages through the cobblestone streets of Old City and Northern Liberties along Second Street. Almost 100…
Located on Columbus Boulevard just north of Spring Garden Street, Waterfront Square represents the first of many proposed skyscraper developments underway along the Central Delaware.
Delaware Avenue and Poplar Street Website This Northern Liberties site appears is the location of the next skyscraper along the Central Delaware (after Waterfront Square). The development team is led by Marc Stein, third-generation Philadelphia steel…
Promoting itself as one of the oldest active music venues in Philadelphia, the Barbary has been a breeding ground for up-and-coming rock musicians since 1969. Located at the edge of…
This site has been vacant so long it resembles natural grassland, and in fact provides quite a beautiful stroll in autumn. And it will remain vacant for a time, with…
Columbus Ave.
The proposed Riverwalk Casino site is an 11.5-acre vacant plot of land just north of Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing and south of the newly constructed Waterfront Square condominiums. The…
This site is part of real estate developer Bart Blatstein’s plan to build an upscale artists’ community on his large property holdings in Northern Liberties. Blatstein designed Liberties Walk to…
In the hey day of Philadelphia’s working waterfront, every pier was known for something. For Poplar Street, it was lumber. Hauled here from the forests of Eastern Pennsylvania, the wood…
Buried in the 1850s, Cohocksink Creek once formed the boundary between Northern Liberties and Kensington. The stream emptied into the Delaware at Brown Street. Its name, an Indian term with…
Richmond Street at Dyott Street
Nowhere does the widespread destruction of Philadelphia’s waterfront history seem crueler than at Dyottsville. Nothing but a grassy field today that was the proposed Pinnacle Casino site, this area on the…
Only one building remains of the once world-famous Cramps Shipyard, and it’s about to be torn down. The Cramps Shipyard Building is a square-shouldered former machine shop that stands with…
One of two riverfront sites selected by Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Sits on 22.6 acres in Northern Liberties at Delaware Avenue and Shackamaxon Street. Though it is further…
Proposed Riverwalk Casino site at Spring Garden Street and Delaware Avenue. At 11 acres, it was the smallest site of the five considered by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board…
