As confirmed by YIMBY’s recent site visit, a cleared rowhouse site continues to sit vacant at 1735 Seybert Street in Cecil B. Moore, Lower North Philadelphia, after the demolition of a vacant two-story single-family rowhouse. An attractive wood plank fence encloses the vacant lot. The work was performed as part of the City of Philadelphia demolition program. Permits listed Francis Henriquez of FH Demolition as the contractor and a work cost of $13,995.
The scope of work included addition of stucco on exposed lot walls of adjacent rowhouses, removal of a party wall at 1737 Seybert Street, and subsequent sheathing and insulation of the structure. No sidewalk work was provided.
1735 Seybert Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2022
1735 Seybert Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. December 2022
Although no construction plans have yet been announced for the site, we would be surprised if the property sat vacant for long. The site sits at the southern end of the Cecil B. Moore area, on the southern fringe of the rapidly developing area around Temple University and near the red-hot, in terms of real estate, neighborhood of Francisville, which is situated just to the south. The Girard Station on the Broad Street line, which offers a five-minute commute to Center City, is located within a nine-minute walk to the southeast, and the route 15 trolley is even more proximately situated on Girard Avenue within a four-minute walk to the south.
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