Azavea’s office is located in the Wolf Building on 12th and Callowhill Streets in what is now known as the Callowhill neighborhood. Callowhill consists, roughly, of the area north of Vine Street and Chinatown to Spring Garden Street and between Broad and 8th Street. Formerly the home to large-scale manufacturing and other industries, in recent years, many old factory buildings have been converted to loft-style apartments, condos and offices; to such a degree, that the neighborhood is also known as “The Loft District”.

Located in a one such loft on the 4th floor of the Wolf Building, we have been able to expand from a small area on the southeast corner of the building in 2002 to almost a quarter of the floor. We love the open space, imposing columns, high ceilings, and large windows with views of the skyline. Those ceilings have proven particularly fruitful as they have enabled our friend Dan Rose to create an elaborate, intriguing, and stark sculpture named, “Piton Project”. One of our programmers, David Zwarg, has also used the ceiling space as a canvas for a suspended map image from one of his projects using old business cards!

David Zwarg’s business card installation.

A few blocks away from the Reading Terminal Market and Chinatown, we can head to our favorite spots for a quick bite to eat at the market, Café Lift or Vietnam Restaurant (and wind down with some suds at a local microbrew, Independence Brew Pub). That’s what I call a nice location!

More on Callowhill:
Photo: Callowhill and Broad in 1901
Photo: Callowhill and Broad in 1894
Wikipedia on Callowhill
The Callowhill Neighborhood Association