Philly YIMBY’s recent site visit has observed sustained construction progress at an eight-story, 21-unit mixed-use building underway at 1000 Spring Garden Street in Callowhill, Lower North Philadelphia. the building rises on the southwest corner of Spring Garden Street and North 10th Street. Designed by HDO Architecture and developed by KT Investments, the structure will span 19,504 square feet and feature commercial space (likely at the ground floor), bicycle storage, and a roof deck. Permits list Liu Construction as the contractor.
Construction costs for the building, which has an alternate address of 1000-02 Spring Garden Street, are specified at $2.25 million, lending a total of around $116 per interior square foot.
1000-02 Spring Garden Street. Photo by Jamie Meller
The structure consists of a single-story concrete platform topped with a steel frame, which, at the time of our visit, has been assembled up to the fourth floor. The location of apertures and closely-spaced metal studs already hint at the building’s future facade with asymmetrical bands of windows and solid walls, as seen in the renderings.
Unfortunately, new construction has blotted out the attractive vintage Union Transfer Co. signage emblazoned on the gable end of the adjacent prewar building. However, obstruction of old signage is an unfortunate side effect of a largely beneficial trend of redeveloping underused lots with dense construction, a phenomenon more frequently observed between new construction and the city’s many murals, and is frequently all but unavoidable. Certainly, a mid-rise mixed-use building with commercial space and 21 residential units makes for much better use of valuable urban space on a major thoroughfare than the parking lot that spanned the site until around 2020.
1000-02 Spring Garden Street. Photo by Jamie Meller
1000 Spring Garden Street stands within an eight-minute walk to the north of the Vine Street Expressway, which demarcates the northern boundary of Center City proper (some recent definitions extend the boundary of “Center City” into Callowhill and up to any convenient “gentrified” point further north, yet YIMBY subscribes to the area’s traditionally and historically established demarcation). The Spring Garden station on the Broad Street Line is situated within an eight-minute walk of the to the west.
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There’s the Catholic Church until one day it will collapse downward for a demolition permit released.
This century’s buildings certainly won’t be considered epic! Are there any architects left in America? Almost all new commercial or residential construction looks like a box that a 7-year-old could draw!
There’s no evidence (other than a porta potty) of ongoing construction — no workers, no equipment, no materiel. Graffiti confirms this. Since April 2023, only three floors have been framed.
This site has been under construction for years. There’s activity for a short time maybe once a year and then it goes silent for long stretches.