North 28 on the Web

A great new Philadelphia real estate blog, is Naked Philly. Recently they came out to visit the North 28 site to check on our progress. We have dug and cut the perimeter outline of the building, and the next steps are to pour the footing for the foundation. Next will come the site utilities, the foundation walls, and lastly the modular boxes arrive. Check out some photos below!

North28 Construction Update - SITE WORK HAS BEGUN!

We are very pleased to announce that site work started this week at North28 at 1238 N. 28th Street in Brewerytown.

This week the site work contractors cleared all trash off the site, cut down the trees (and large weeds) and are hauling all the debris away.

Next week they will start to dig for the foundations.

Here are some photos and a video. Stay tuned for more updates.

North 28 Construction Update

After the usual back and forth coordination between our architects - JKR Partners - and our modular builder, the North 28 permit sets are complete and ready to submit to L&I for the building permit! The application will be made, and the permit should be in hand within two weeks. We can't wait to break ground, and will continue to keep everybody in the loop. Please continue to check this site for more updates!

Flying Kite Media Story on North28 - MMPartner's New Residential Project in Brewerytown

Regardless of whether or not you believe that the current real estate crisis is finally coming to a close, the fact remains that there will probably always be neighborhoods in Philadelphia that are optimally ripe for renewal. According to Jacob Roller of MM Partners LLC, a real estate development and management company with offices on West Girard Avenue, Brewerytown may very well the next ideal neighborhood in line for something of an aesthetic and cultural transformation.

Already, MM Partners has been responsible for bringing an outpost of the local Mugshots CoffeeHouse & Cafe chain to Brewerytown; they've also rehabbed countless residential and retail properties up and down the main drag of West Girard. The company's current residential project, however, is its most ambitious yet in the neighborhood.

Known as North 28, and located just north of the Fairmount neighborhood at 1238 North 28th Street, the project is a "15 unit building with 15 gated parking spaces," according to the MM Partners website. It's also the first residential development to be built north of Girard in the past five years; the last was the Westrum Development Company's 144-unit Brewerytown Square project. Interestingly enough, North 28 is being built as a modular construction project, and the units have been approved for both sale and rental.

But as Roller explains it, the focus of his company, which he co-owns with business partner David Waxman, doesn't actually begin and end with residential construction. Rather, it's concerned with the overall revival of the Brewerytown neighborhood because, as Roller says, "We think retail drives residential growth."

The company plans to break ground on the 14,500 square-foot lot where North 28 will sit in roughly a month or two. Rental units, which will run from $900 to $1,450 per month, should be available for viewing this May.

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Source: Jacob Roller, MM Partners LLC
Writer: Dan Eldridge

North 28!!

North 28 is a new construction 15-unit building with 15 gated parking spaces located in Brewerytown at 1238 N 28th Street, 1/2 block north of Girard Avenue. We recently secured a construction loan from Beneficial Bank to construct this building with work commencing in a matter of months. We expect to have finished units available for sale this summer as the project is modular construction. Please check back in at this site for construction updates, photos and the like (just click the "North 28" tag to find all updates).