1924 N Front StDelivered

A five-story, 32-unit mixed-use building has been delivered at 1924 N Front St in Fishtown, adding another sizable residential project to a stretch of the neighborhood that continues to absorb multifamily development at pace. The structure, cleared to build in late 2022, includes ground-floor commercial space—vacant for now, awaiting separate fit-out—and four floors of apartments above, topped by a roof deck and pilot house with a green roof. The building was amended early in construction to adjust the storefront layout, adding a door and tweaking window placement and finishes.

The site measures just over 8,100 square feet and is zoned CMX2.5, which permits the five-story, by-right envelope without variance theatrics. 1924 Front Owner LLC took title in 2022, timing the acquisition to move quickly through permitting and construction. The building's sprinkler and standpipe systems were spec'd to meet the hybrid NFPA standards typical of this scale—13 in the basement and ground floor, 13R in the residential levels—and the project required the usual sidewalk shed within about 14 feet of the facade during construction.

This delivery slots into a dense cluster of recent and ongoing Fishtown projects, with more than 300 units under construction or recently completed within a half-mile radius. Immediate neighbors include an eight-unit building at 2034 N Front, a nine-unit at 1828 Frankford, and a 31-unit project at 2112 N Front, alongside a pair of mid-teens buildings on N 2nd Street. The wave reflects both CMX zoning's flexibility and sustained investor appetite for residential product in the corridor, even as the neighborhood's character shifts from scrappy to decidedly more polished.

With Front Street increasingly spoken for, the project underscores how quickly mid-block parcels in formerly overlooked industrial pockets are being reconfigured for multifamily use. The surrounding blocks still hold a scattering of low-slung commercial and light-industrial parcels that could follow the same playbook, particularly as land prices in the deeper core of Fishtown push developers to test adjacencies. The 1924 Front delivery won't be an outlier for long.