Call Philly Po'Boy Co's Leasing Agent Before Someone Else Does

Greg and Chris Lynch spent 18 months perfecting the bread for Philly Po'Boy Co, and they're opening it this week at 102 West Berks Street in Kensington, right beside the Berks station on the Market Frankford El. The menu runs po'boys, gumbo and beignets, with a sidewalk kiosk for coffee and beignets separate from the main counter.

A spot wedged against an elevated train stop gets foot traffic without needing a corner or a parking lot, and it gets it on a schedule: morning commuters for the kiosk, lunch and dinner crowds off the train for the sandwich counter. Kensington's restaurant scene has been filling in block by block for years now, and a concept built around a transit stop instead of a destination address is the kind of tenant that makes an awkward, narrow storefront actually work.

The article doesn't say what the Lynch brothers are paying in rent or whether they negotiated a buildout allowance, so I can't tell you if this deal was generous or tight. What I can tell you is that a storefront next to a transit stop in a neighborhood this active should be renting faster than the market usually prices it.