Construction Nearly Complete at 408 North Front Street in Northern Liberties

A recent site visit by Philadelphia YIMBY has confirmed that construction work is nearly complete at a four-story mixed-use building underway at 408-10 North Front Street in Northern Liberties, Lower North Philadelphia. Permits for the site list 1833 Realty LLC as the owner.

408 North Front Street. Photo by Jamie Meller

408-10 North Front Street. Credit: KCA Design Associates

408-10 North Front Street. Credit: KCA Design Associates

Despite certain changes, the overall design resembles the rendering, with two angled cantilever bays flanking a streetwall-aligned central section. In its completed version, the building was reduced in height by one story, decreasing from five to four floors. In contrast to the original design, which showed windows at the cantilever and balconies in the center, the balcony array has been shifted to the northern side of the structure. The angle of the cantilevers was softened, giving the structure a more sophisticated appearance. In all, the final product looks more refined than the rather plain rendering that was originally presented.

408 North Front Street. Photo by Jamie Meller

408 North Front Street. Photo by Jamie Meller

In the past decade or so, the surrounding neighborhood has seen an astonishing transformation. As recently as ten-plus years ago, the neighborhood was a peripheral backwater, where centuries of history, dating to the colonial period, were all but erased in the postwar era. The scaffold supplier shared the surrounding blocks, sited between the Delaware River waterfront to the east and the elevated Interstate 95 viaduct to the west, with vacant lots, occasional remaining prewar buildings, and a trickle of new developments that started rising around the turn of the millennium.

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