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Originally Posted by CleetMcDougle
These buildings are massive. Also don't forget there are two apartment projects happening right across the street too. With the NoLibs boom, Fishtown building up, and the American St. Corridor getting a ton of love, this area is going to be perhaps the densest outside of CC, if it isn't already.
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With all of this activity occurring, I am betting that everything between the SEPTA Main Line, the Delaware, Callowhill, and Lehigh will hold at least some level of desirability before the end of the decade. The combined development wave of Northern Liberties and Fishtown has completely revitalized South and East Kensington, and is currently pushing into Norris Square and even Ludlow. I check in on permits daily, and to say that infill development would be occurring at certain locations even five years ago would have been laughable (ex. I just saw a permit issued for a three-story building with a roof deck at 171 W Huntingdon Street). I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing mixed-use buildings on West Lehigh or intense infill development northeast of Lehigh and above Frankford towards the end of the decade.
The story of Northern Liberties and Fishtown has been incredible so far. If Post Brothers succeeds in densifying the northern section of NoLibs (especially if office space is added), then I believe that this development wave will spread further north and northeast than anyone could have ever imagined!