Permits have been issued for the construction of a four-story, 106,973-square-foot storage facility at 2258 East Tioga Street in Port Richmond, Kensington. The new structure will rise from a vacant lot on the eastern corner of the intersection of East Tioga and Tulip streets. The L-shaped structure will rise from a large vacant site at the western corner of the intersection of Tioga and Tulip streets, with its primary frontage stretching along Tulip. Permits list Top Measure LLC as the contractor and specify a construction cost of $7 million.
2258 East Tioga Street. Credit: M & B Y B L I I via the Civic Design Review
2258 East Tioga Street. Credit: M & B Y B L I I via the Civic Design Review
The structure will rise around 50 feet high to the parapet, looming just four feet away from backyards of two-story rowhouses directly to the north. A redeeming feature of the design is the green-colored corner feature with floor-to-ceiling windows. The rest of the facade is clad in rather unobtrusive light gray panels.
2258 East Tioga Street will act as a massive bulwark between the car-oriented, suburban-styled commercial area to the south (the Imperial Plaza shopping center at 3400 Aramingo Avenue sits across Tulip Street) and a predominantly prewar rowhouse residential neighborhood to the north. The location sits rather far from SEPTA subway lines, yet the route 25 and 89 buses stop at Aramingo Avenue a block to the southeast.
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North Park Ave. & McFerran St, are nowhere near this development.