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Originally Posted by japmes
What is the next phase? It seems pretty built out already.
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It's almost built out but the retail is yet to mature. With area demographics, NoLibs should have a much stronger retail corridor, esp immediately around the Piazza.
The article does mention schools as the key to keeping more young families, and this is one of the reasons why Northern Liberties I think has been bypassed by Fishtown in some ways.
The core of Northern Liberties (what I'd call Front to 6th, Spring Garden to Girard) is split between 3 elementary school catchments. Thus, although Kearny (at 6th & Fairmount) is the de facto neighborhood school, only a 3rd of the neighborhood is actually zoned to it.
North of Poplar is zoned to a school in South Kensington and the very northeast portion of the neighborhood (like Hope Street/Allen Street) is zoned to Adaire in Fishtown.
Thus, there has never been any full sale neighborhood adoption of Kearny.
I know the city is doing an extensive review of elementary school catchments but this one is in desperate need of an overhall. It would be hard to dump the streets from Adaire into the Kearny catchment, as Adaire is a better school and the families would be furious, but it would be super logical to collapse all of the balance of NoLibs between Front all the way out to say 8th, between Spring Garden and Girard into Kearny.