Parking surely tightened up in Northern Liberties a few months ago, when the parking lot east of the Piazza and south of the Shops at Schmidt’s closed to the public. At the time, we had no idea what was going on with this property, but we had a couple of theories. We noted that Tower Development got approval about a decade ago to build a project called the Residences at Schmidt’s on this parcel, including a twenty-six story tower, a sixteen story tower, and a line of residences on Germantown Avenue. We wondered whether this project might finally be moving forward. We thought that Tower might have sold the lot to a different developers, since they sold off the Piazza a few years back. We also considered the possibility that Tower maintained ownership but had a different project in mind than they did back in the day.