716 North 43rd Street Rendering

By YIMBY Team

Permits Issued for 20-Unit Building at 716 North 43rd Street in Haverford North, West Philadelphia

Permits have been issued for the construction of a 20-unit residential building at 716 North 43rd Street in Haverford North, West Philadelphia. The approved work calls for a semi-detached, four-story structure with a partial basement, front porch, and a service roof access structure. The building will span 21,446 square feet of new construction and seven proposed bicycle spaces. Designblendz Architecture is responsible for the designs and LA88 Remod Inc is listed as the contractor.

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2731 North 13th Street Elevations

Permits Issued for Three-Unit Building at 2731 North 13th Street in Glenwood, North Philadelphia

By YIMBY Team

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-unit multi-family residential building at 2731 North 13th Street in Glenwood, North Philadelphia. The approved scope calls for an attached structure with a cellar, roof deck, roof deck access structure, and two rear decks. The building permit calls for 3,840 square feet of new construction. Lynx Management Solutions LLC is listed as the contractor. KCA Design Associates is responsible for the designs.

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1527 Callowhill Street. Building rendering. Credit: Designblendz Architecture via the Civic Design Review by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and the Department of Planning and Development.

YIMBY Shares In-Depth Detail on 188-Unit Mixed-Use Development Slated for Construction at 1527 Callowhill Street in Franklintown

By Vitali Ogorodnikov

Philly YIMBY recently shared renderings and proposal details for a for an eight-story, 188-unit mixed-use development planned at 1527 Callowhill Street in Franklintown, Lower North Philadelphia, as outlined in a recent submission to the city’s Civic Design Review committee; today we take a closer look at the planned project. The 208,000-square-foot, 95-foot-tall structure (measured from the average ground plane to the top of the roof access pilot house) will rise at the northeast corner of Callowhill Street and North 16th Street and will offer rental apartments, ground-floor retail, a green roof, and parking for 24 cars and 63 bicycles. The project team includes Omega Home Builders as the developer and Designblendz Architecture as the designer.

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1320-22 Smedley Street Section

Permits Issued for Apartment Building At 1320-22 North Smedley Street In Philadelphia

By YIMBY Team

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, four-unit apartment building at 1320-22 North Smedley Street in Cecil B. Moore, North Philadelphia. The project will offer 6,397 square feet of new construction as well as a full cellar, balconies and roof decks, and two accessory interior parking spaces, one being van-accessible. Permits list KJO Architecture as responsible for the designs and Kieran Miller as the contractor.

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