Excavation equipment has been spotted on site at 1823 Callowhill Street in Franklintown, North Philadelphia. Designed by Wulff Architects, the building will rise six stories tall and will feature 57 residential units, according to a CDR filing from last April. A 5,000 square foot fresh food market will be located on the ground floor, as well as two commercial spaces, with one holding 1,500 square feet of space, and the other with 680 square feet of space. No parking space is planned for the property, which makes sense given its location that is within walking distance of many Center City destinations.
Rendering of 1823 Callowhill Street. Credit: Wulff Architects.
Renderings show a modern structure that will stand out as the largest building on the block once completed. The exterior utilizing a mixture of different colored cladding, with a gray color being used primarily. Additionally, black cladding will be situated on prominent sections of the building, and is one of the most noticeable features of the design. White cladding is used as an accent to the building, located in certain sections of the façade.
Rendering of 1823 Callowhill Street. Credit: Wulff Architects.
The ground floor create a pleasant street presence, with large windows meeting the sidewalk, as well as a sizable quantity of street trees which will cast shade onto the sidewalk. Lastly, the building’s shape will allow for a courtyard to be situated adjacent to the street, and will offer a pleasant outdoor space to the surrounding area.
Current view of the site. Credit: Colin LeStourgeon.
Current view of 1823 Callowhill Street. Credit: Colin LeStourgeon
Excavation equipment is now located on site, which hints at work to potentially begin soon. If it gets underway, the building will transform the block and add more life and density to the surrounding area, helping support the businesses already located there as well as adding more on the ground floor of the project.
Aerial rendering of 1823 Callowhill Street. Credit: Wulff Architects.
No official completion date is known at this time, although if work starts soon, which seems possible, the development could reach completion sometime in late 2022 or early 2023.
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No parking sounds good but not suitable to encourage a retail market business. Also not everyone can walk to work. How many people can walk home with five pounds of apples and oranges , a head of lettuce and a quart of juice ?. All you need is a small pick-up and parking area – one hour free parking. Your fresh food market would be much more attractive.
Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods have been successful in the city by using limited garage parking.
In the last year we have all learned that words and names matter. The very name Franklin Town grates on the nerves of many older neighbors who still live in the “redeveloped” area that in 1971 was announced as the “city-within-a-city” Franklin Town, to be completed in a decade. For the reasons why see the two articles on the Franklin Town project starting at https://www.baldwinparkphilly.org/franklin-town The name of Franklin Town Park was officially changed by the City in 2011 to Matthias Baldwin Park for these reasons, and the website NextDoor last year changed the name of the neighborhood from Franklin Town (or Franklintown) to Baldwin Park. Names matter. The Franklin Town development mowed down 50 acres and left mostly decades of surface parking lots, and what they did build is Stalinist dreck. Realtors, please, our neighborhood is Baldwin park, not Franklin Town!