It’s easy to know where to go once you get inside Cherry Street Pier: Just follow the train track embedded in the structure’s concrete floors. The rehabbed Philadelphia warehouse and shipping pier reopened in 2018 and was undergoing more updates as of press time, but it’s held fast to its industrial character. When the pier was built on the Delaware River in 1919, it was used for offloading fruits and vegetables shipped to Philadelphia. The produce was transferred onto trains that took it into the city for retail sale. Over time, shipping gravitated to other parts of the riverfront, and the 55,000-square-foot structure (then known as Municipal Pier 9) was used for storage....Groundswell Design Group and Interface Studio Architects (ISA) worked together to find a dynamic way to reuse the space: artist’s studios made of shipping containers. The studios are lined up on the south side of the interior, leaving plenty of space for temporary markets and exhibitions. The pier is part of the Old City Historic District, and its century-old street-facing head house and much of the other exterior detailing were saved. Crews are currently repairing and replicating clerestory windows, and in January they replaced non-historic metal entry doors with glass ones