Permits Issued for 3042 Titan Street in Grays Ferry, South Philadelphia

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story single-family rowhouse at 3042 Titan Street in Grays Ferry, South Philadelphia. The building will rise from a vacant lot situated on the south side of the block between South 30th and South 31st streets. Designed by the Hammel Architectural Group, the structure will span 1,377 square feet and will feature a basement and a roof deck. Permits list Mik Mar Associates as the contractor.

Construction costs are listed at $255,000, lending a total of around $185 per interior square foot. Permits allocate $180,000 toward general construction, $25,000 for electrical work, $25,000 for mechanical work, and $25,000 for plumbing work.

3042 Titan Street. Location map and zoning map. Credit: Hammel Architectural Group via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development

3042 Titan Street. Site plan. Credit: Hammel Architectural Group via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development

The building will espouse rather average proportions for a rowhouse, measuring 14 feet wide and 34 feet deep, with a seven-foot-deep backyard backed by a three-foot-wide shared alley. The structure will rise 34 feet to the main roof, 36 feet to the parapet, and 43 feet to the top of the pilot house. The roof deck will boast panoramic views of University City and Center City skylines, both of which rise in relative proximity, sited within roughly one and two miles away, respectively.

The ground level will be elevated by four feet at the street and by one-and-a-half feet at the rear yard. Floor-to-floor heights will measure around ten feet. The exterior will feature brick cladding at the main facade and paneling at the street-facing cantilever on the two upper floors, a rather ubiquitous design scheme for new construction throughout the city which will certainly come to define the 2020s rowhouse architectural vernacular in Philadelphia.

3042 Titan Street. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: Hammel Architectural Group via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development

3042 Titan Street. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: Hammel Architectural Group via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development

3042 Titan Street. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: Hammel Architectural Group via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development

After having been built out, predominantly with rowhouses, over a century ago, Grays Ferry, situated in west-central South Philly, has seen very little new development in the postwar period. This trend, however, has seen a massive reversal in recent years, following an ongoing citywide surge in new housing construction. To wit, less than ten years ago, a community garden spanned much of the south side of the 3000 block of Titan Street; as of today, new two- and three-story rowhouses have replaced much of the green space, and 3042 Titan Street will rise one of the now few remaining open parcels, helping restore the block to its original residential density.

The route 12, 49, and 64 bus lines service the surrounding area; of these, several run along Grays Ferry Avenue, which is situated a block to the north. Though the Broad Street subway is quite distant (the Ellsworth-Federal Station sits within a 35-minute walk to the east), the Grays Ferry Crescent Park along the Schuylkill River sits within a ten-minute walk to the northwest, and the University City medical district may be reached via a 15-minute walk across the river to the north.

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