Hearth is a boutique residential developer building ground-up and adaptive-reuse homes in Philadelphia's character neighborhoods. We build the kind of buildings we'd want our families to live in — and we partner with the kind of capital that wants the same.
Hearth was started by two people who grew up in this city, who walk these blocks, and who want to leave the neighborhood better than we found it. Capital is a tool. The work is the point.
Brick, oak, copper, plaster. Materials chosen for how they age — not how they photograph at handover.
Local trades, regional mills, neighborhood subcontractors. Money out of the project circulates within ten miles of it.
We don't chase yield in markets we don't know. We optimize for the third project on the same street being easier than the first.
A working portfolio of homes we've built, are building, and are planning. Each one starts with a parcel and a question — does this make the block better?
Six boutique homes arranged around a shared cobblestone mews — designed in collaboration with a local landscape architect, built with a Philadelphia-based GC who's been with us since 2022. Every brick coursed by hand.
Eight ground-up townhomes. Six sold to neighborhood buyers.
Adaptive reuse of a 1922 brewing structure. Original timber trusses preserved.
A three-unit infill on a lot vacant for nineteen years. Best-in-class matched cornice work.
Twenty-two homes delivered as a single coherent streetscape.
We don't hide our terms — every Hearth project follows the same waterfall, the same sponsor co-invest, and the same quarterly reporting cadence. Predictable structure is what compounds partner trust.
"We started Hearth because too many of our favorite blocks were getting filled in by builders who would never stand on the sidewalk and look at the cornice height. If you'd rather invest in something you can drive past in twenty years and feel proud of, we should talk."
We accept a small group of new capital partners each vintage. Coffee on us — we'd love to walk you through the pipeline in person.
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