Lower North Philadelphia
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Council Districts: (1) Frank DiCicco; (5) Darrell Clarke; (7) Maria D. Quinones-Sanchez
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Councilman Darrell Clarke, 5th District Update, February 2009
6th Annual Fairmount Fling
Neighborhoods include:
Art Museum/Fairmount
Spring Garden
Brewerytown
Northern Liberties
Strawberry Mansion
Located on Pier 19 north, Dave & Buster’s advertises a family-friendly entertainment experience. This restaurant also doubles as a tech-heavy game haven, bustling with arcade games and simulators. Its rooms…
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…
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…
Known locally as “The Art Museum,” it has been among the largest and most important museums in the United States since it opened in 1876. The Museum sits in…
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…
The state court has granted permission for the Barnes Foundation to move from its site in Lower Merion Township to the site of the Juvenile Detention Center on the Parkway.…
The Barnes Tower is a 47-story, 500-foot residential tower that would replace the Best Western Motel Center City with 247 condo units. There is an option for a second building…
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…
Going down the shore? Before there was a Benjamin Franklin Bridge, thousands departed by ferry from the Vine Street landing for a run across New Jersey via the Camden &…
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…
The concept for John Fitch's paddle powered steamboat emanated from a dream.
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…
Project would sit on 27 acres next to Delaware River in Kensington at Beach Street and Schirra Drive. Of the five sites considered by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board…
Located at the terminus of the Lehigh Avenue Viaduct along the Delaware River, this 200 acres of underutilized post-industrial property presents an incredible opportunity for redevelopment of some kind.
