So earlier today I took a long walk through Brewerytown and Sharswood. Things I noticed:
- Last summer I commented on how new development had gotten up to Master in the Brewerytown area. Well, it's moved a block further north, with new construction now on three sides of Athletic Square and up to Jefferson west of 26th.
- Plenty of PHA action around Ridge, where they've cleared the old Blum site of everything except for that one tower they're intending to keep as senior housing and are now building rowhomes all along Jefferson and punching 23rd and an interstitial street through the site. There's also a zoning notice suggesting PHA is planning on turning the school across the street into
more senior housing. The new PHA HQ is now a big steel frame along Ridge.
- The usual new apartment buildings popping up around Templetown.
- Cecil B. Moore west of Broad is evolving into quite the commercial corridor, despite the unfriendly architecture for it, with retail tenants jamming into first floors up and down the street. I contended several years ago that the commercial demand along Cecil B. Moore was a lot higher than most people realized, and that looks borne out. It would not surprise me if landlords started converting more ground-floor apartments along the street to retail to get in on that particular game.
- Remember when we talked about putting paths on that silt islet over by Boathouse Row? Whelp, they're finally doing that.
- Lemon Hill is in positively atrocious condition, with stairways that are starting to sag, walking paths whose condition varies from "overgrown" to "unusable runnels" to "completely lost", lack of clear demarcation between pedestrian and auto areas in places, and other issues related to undermaintenance such as railings falling apart as the wood posts holding them together rot. But hey, they cleared out some thicket to reestablish the viewshed from the hilltop, so they've got that going for it, which is nice.
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Originally Posted by mja
It's maybe my favorite building in the city just for how eccentric it is, and they've done the impossible and have really honored it while renovating it. Who's the developer? I'm ready to send them a thank you card.
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Brickstone.