General Contractor in Port Richmond.

Building in Port Richmond

Port Richmond never emptied out the way some River Wards blocks did — its rowhomes stayed lived-in, often by the same families for two or three generations. That changes what "renovation" means here. The houses have good bones: solid brick, honest framing, roofs that were maintained because somebody's grandmother lived under them. The work isn't resurrection; it's respect.

Our bread-and-butter Port Richmond projects are kitchen and bath updates in houses that have earned them — modern function without erasing the character that makes these homes worth keeping. Alongside that: brick repointing where a century of weather has softened the mortar joints, and joist sistering where the old lumber needs a partner rather than a replacement. Ripping sound original material out of a Port Richmond rowhome to install something flimsier is the kind of flip-job disrespect that gets noticed on these blocks — and it should.

Port Richmond projects also come with a distinctly local constraint: the house is usually occupied, often by more than one generation, and moving out for a renovation isn't on the table. We sequence the work so the household keeps functioning — bathrooms switched over in a day, kitchens kept partially usable through demo, dust barriers treated as non-negotiable because someone's grandmother is on the other side of them. It's slower on paper and faster in reality, because a family that isn't miserable doesn't pause the job.

The new-construction story here is the river blocks. We designed and built five new homes in Port Richmond — each with its own kitchen, baths, and flooring, with exteriors that nod to the neighborhood's port history instead of ignoring it. A few doors down, our home addition & rehab project added new space and a new facade to an existing home. Same street, two completely different disciplines — which is Port Richmond in a nutshell.

Services in Port Richmond

The most-requested work here is kitchen and bathroom remodeling that respects the original build, backed by structural framing and joist repair where the old floors need help. On the river blocks we do ground-up construction — Salmon Street twice over proves it — and our concrete crew handles everything from new foundations to the sidewalks Philadelphia says are your responsibility. Full-scope jobs run through our general contracting service — one schedule, one accountable builder, and a crew that treats a lived-in family rowhome with the care it's earned over three generations.

Nearby Neighborhoods

Down the river sits Fishtown and our Frankford Ave headquarters; between them, East Kensington is where our shell-rehab work concentrates. The full list of neighborhoods we build in is on our service areas page.