Permits have been issued for a five-story, 50-unit residential building at 139 West Chelten Avenue in Germantown, Northwest Philadelphia. The development will be situated within a two- to three-block walking distance to two SEPTA Regional Rail stations, the Chelten Avenue Station to the southwest and the Germantown Station to the northeast. The ground-level retail space will contribute to the commercial corridor along which the building will be situated. The structure will span a 13,681-square-foot footprint and will feature 52,391 square feet of interior space, full sprinkling, and an unspecified number of parking spaces.
Permits list Chen Yi Di and Lin Chao Ming as the owners, Gabrielle Canno as the design professional, and Tester Construction Group LLC as the contractor. Construction costs are specified at $7.7 million.
The development is a fine example of dense, transit-oriented development that is making a significant comeback around the city’s and the metropolitan area’s rail hubs. The incoming residents and ground-level retail will help revitalize a once-thriving, but currently ailing stretch commercial corridor, and will help solidify it as a destination for the lower-density surrounding neighborhood.
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I think you read the permits incorrectly. Chen Yi Di and Lin Chao Ming owned this and they transfered the property to Khosla Properties in April. Check atlas.phila.gov
Renders?
Yadain is a nice business, though I disagree with their new location in the Allen’s building being painted black on the exterior – it’s a landmark building and that was an aesthetic no-no. But the new store looks very nice inside.
The location in question, here, was once a Pep Boys on the corner and then to its left (in the space painted yellow in the photo) was a restaurant that lasted well into the 1970s of great renown in the NW Philadelphia and near suburbs around it, called Imhof’s (though I believe that space currently may be a replacement building for what had been Imhof’s).