Construction Approaches Halfway Point at 1000 Spring Garden Street in Callowhill, Lower North Philadelphia

A recent site visit by Philly YIMBY has noted that the concrete frame has risen one level above the street 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. February 2024

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.

Since our last visit in July 2023, the structure has risen by three floors. 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. May 2023

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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1 Comment on "Construction Approaches Halfway Point at 1000 Spring Garden Street in Callowhill, Lower North Philadelphia"

Zack | July 23, 2024 at 2:10 pm | Reply
Does anyone refer to this area as “Lower North Philadelphia” though? Neighborhoods are dynamic and fluid and evolve over time. Why insist on fixed definitions and boundaries? And why draw the line at a certain period of time? The area was farmland at one point, then it developed and integrated into the city grid, then it changed demographically, then it changed again, and in several decades time, it will change yet again. Why fixate on definitions of the 1960s?