The neighborhood's rich heritage coexists with a growing renaissance which has seen the addition of several small businesses and a surge in population, blurring the boundaries with the neighboring Fairmount and Francisville neighborhoods. 

 

Businesses such as Music Box Records, Nagelberg Hardware, Girard Vet Clinic, Best In Show pet grooming, and the Bottom Dollar supermarket provide the neighborhood a crucial component of convenience. Restaurants including Butter's Soul Food, Shifty's Taco, Rybrew, Italian Express, and Era bring Brewerytown a local flavor. Organizations like Give and Go Athletics and Marathon Grill's Urban Farm keep the community active and invested. And with Fairmount Park's Lemon Hill and Kelly Drive, the Philadelphia Zoo, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Girard College all within a short walk, Brewerytown's outlook remains poised for continued growth.

• Close proximity to Center City

• Excellent access to public transportation and major highways

• Directly adjacent to Fairmont Park and Kelly Drive

• Strong rental and for sale market

• Directly adjacent to the affluent Fairmont/Art Museum neighborhood which has been pushing north, and has now reached W. Girard Avenue

• Significantly underserved retail buying power in the neighborhood, creating strong demand for new retail (Brewerytown and Fairmount residents)

• Large stock of historic properties 

• Public interest and investment in the West Girard Avenue Commercial Corridor

• Opportunity to create a thriving Main Street retail corridor along West Girard Avenue from West College Avenue to 29th Street, which in turn drives residential growth

• Near Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University, all major demand generators for housing

Brewerytown is ideally situated in the Northwest corner of Center City Philadelphia directly above the thriving Art Museum/Fairmount neighborhood. Brewerytown offers unparalleled access to major highways, public transportation, Fairmount Park, Kelly Drive, Lemon Hill, Strawberry Mansion Driving Range, bike lanes and is within walking distance of many attractions.  

The Philadelphia Athletics called Brewerytown their home in the early 20th Century, playing their American League baseball games at Columbia Park (at modern day 31st Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue) before moving to Shibe Park and then on to Kansas City and Oakland. The A's shared the ballpark with the Negro League's Philadelphia Giants. 

 

Malcolm X lived briefly in Brewerytown in 1954; he's honored in a mural with Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, and Frederick Douglass at the Veterans Memorial Park and Dream Garden on Girard Avenue at 31st Street. Legendary graffiti artist Cornbread got his start in Brewerytown in the '60s and still lives nearby. 

The Brewerytown section of Philadelphia takes its name from an industry that, at its peak, saw more than 700 breweries across the city, 20 within just a ten block radius here. Though the brewers are long gone, the German influenced architecture that they contributed still dots the area, from City Park Brewery (now The Brewery condos) to F. A. Poth Brewing Company (most recently Red Bell's brewery). In 1991, the Brewerytown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places.