A recent site visit by Philadelphia YIMBY has noted that construction continues to progress at a 46-unit residential development underway at 207-11 Vine Street in the Old City section of Center City. Designed by CANNOdesign, the project will consist of a six-story building at 211 Vine Street, which will span 61,694 square feet, two new townhouses at 207A and 207B and 209 Vine Street, and a multi-family renovation of a historic prewar house at 209 Vine Street. The development will also include parking for 18 vehicles.
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
207-11 Vine Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. June 2023
211 Vine Street before demolition. Credit: CANNOdesign
207-11 Vine Street. Looking north. Credit: Google Maps
207-11 Vine Street. Credit: Google Maps
207A and 207B Vine Street. Credit: CANNOdesign
207-11 Vine Street. Credit: CANNOdesign
207-11 Vine Street. Credit: CANNOdesign
207-11 Vine Street. Credit: CANNOdesign
207-11 Vine Street. Credit: CANNOdesign
The complex will rise in the northern section of Old City, just to to the south of the Vine Street Expressway. The buildings are sensibly scaled in a manner deferential to the neighborhood, matching both low- and mid-rise structures that stand in the vicinity. The building will greet the quaint Vine Street to the south with a contextual brick facade, and face the Expressway-adjacent Wood Street with plainer metal cladding.
The development will replace a pair of three-story rowhouses. Although both apparently date to the prewar period, neither one appears architecturally nor historically distinguished, featuring minimal ornamentation or other preservation-worthy qualities. Thankfully, the most attractive building at the site, a Colonial-styled rowhouse, will be preserved and incorporated into the complex.
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