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Marketing and web design in Holmesburg
Holmesburg is one of the older parts of the Northeast, settled long before the neighborhoods above it, and the housing shows it: a mix of stone houses, twins and rowhomes considerably older than the postwar stock further out, on a street pattern that predates the grid.
Covering Holmesburg and the ZIP code 19136.
About Holmesburg
Frankford Avenue runs through it as the commercial spine, continuing the corridor up from Mayfair with a mix of independent shops, services and trades. Pennypack Park cuts across the neighborhood along the creek, which gives it a genuine green edge and also constrains how the streets connect.
For trade businesses the age of the housing is the opportunity. Older stone and masonry construction with original systems needs work that the newer detached stock in the Far Northeast does not, and it needs contractors who have handled buildings of that age. That is closer to the work available in the rowhome city than to the suburban service list a few miles north.
What is different about Holmesburg
- Older stock than the neighborhoods above it
- Stone, masonry and pre-war construction here needs different trades from the postwar detached houses further out in the Northeast. A business advertising a generic Northeast service list is describing the wrong buildings.
- The creek breaks the street pattern
- Pennypack Park runs through the neighborhood and limits how streets connect across it. Drive times between two addresses that look close on a map can be considerably longer, which matters for any business quoting service coverage.
- The same corridor, further along
- Frankford Avenue continues here from Mayfair, and customers move along it freely. A Holmesburg business is competing with businesses further down the same road, not only with those inside its own neighborhood boundary.
The work in Holmesburg
Advertise for the housing that is actually here: stone, masonry and pre-war construction needs different trades from the postwar detached stock further out, so a generic Northeast service list describes the wrong buildings. Remember the creek breaks the street pattern, so drive times between addresses that look close on a map can be considerably longer, which matters for any coverage claim. And you compete along Frankford Avenue rather than inside a neighborhood boundary.
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