A recent site visit by Philly YIMBY has noted significant construction progress at a seven-story, 119-unit mixed-use building at 619 North Broad Street in Poplar, Lower North Philadelphia. Designed by Brightcommon, the development will feature commercial space spanning 3,791 square feet of space, as well as 90,882 square feet of residential space and 34 parking spaces.
619 North Broad Street. Credit: Brightcommon/Google.
619 North Broad Street. Credit: Brightcommon.
619 North Broad Street. Credit: Brightcommon.
619 North Broad Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. July 2024.
619 North Broad Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. July 2024.
619 North Broad Street. Photo by Jamie Meller. July 2024.
The development was previously planned to rise around twice as high as its current iteration, which was revealed earlier this year. However, although clearly underbuilt for such a centrally-located, transit-accessible site (the Spring Garden and Fairmount stations on the Broad Street SEPTA line are both situated within a two- to three-minute walk to the south and to the north, respectively), the project in its present form still offers a massive improvement for the site, which currently houses a suburban-style single-story detached commercial structure fronted by a large parking lot.
619 North Broad Street will fill a major street gap along what is arguably Philadelphia’s most important thoroughfare, and will help reinforce the corridor between Center City to the south and the Temple University campus to the north. We look forward to further progress on the project.
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It could be biases from the fire department objecting towards a taller building on site or building costs rising due to higher rates.
The built project is an improvement over the renderings showing hokey arches. The way the arched design elements are now incorporated into the project is way better. Good job!!
Underwhelming.
Smh. Can already tell the arches won’t look anything like the render. Was already underwhelming, this will get even worse in person. Cheap and trashy like everything else Philly has been building the past few years.