Permits Issued for Three-Unit Building at 2325 Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia East

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, three-unit rowhouse at 2325 Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia East. The building will replace a portion of a large vacant lot located on the north side of the block between North 7th and North 8th streets. Designed by the 24/7 Design Group, the structure will span 4,228 square feet and will feature a basement and a roof deck. Permits list Eko Realty LLC as the contractor.

Construction costs are specified at $550,000, lending a total of around $130 per interior square foot. Permits allocate $500,000 toward general construction and $50,000 for excavation work.

2325 Germantown Avenue. Proposed site plan. Credit: 24 7 Design Group via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia

The new building will measure 18 feet wide and 66 feet deep, with a chamfered floor plan at the rear, which results from the property’s trapezoidal shape, with a 229-square-foot rear yard. The building’s footprint will cover 82 percent of the lot, slightly above the area’s standard zoning maximum of 75 percent coverage.

The structure will rise 31 feet to the main roof and 40 feet to the top of the roof access stair bulkhead. The ground level will sit one foot above the sidewalk level, resulting in a basement that will sit practically entirely below the street grade level. Floor-to-floor heights will measure 10 feet.

2325 Germantown Avenue. Proposed building section. Credit: 24 7 Design Group via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia

The building will rise in a once-forlorn yet rapidly reviving area covered in YIMBY’s 2021 feature, Grandeur and Desolation: Four Minor Buildings in North Philadelphia East are Gradually Turning the Tide in a Long-Neglected Neighborhood. The feature documented the intriguing, paradoxically serene streetscape of a once-dense yet now largely demolished neighborhood, where grand churches and other public buildings tower over acres of vacant lots (the stately, Neo-Gothic King Solomon Baptist Church stands at 2318 Germantown Avenue, across from the latest proposal site). The feature also focused on new construction that is gradually reviving the neighborhood, often one rowhouse at a time.

The Susquehanna-Dauphin station on the Broad Street subway line sits within a 15-minute walk to the west of 2325 Germantown Avenue, about the same distance as to the Temple University station on the SEPTA commuter rail to the southwest, next to the campus of the eponymous university. Route 39 and 47 buses stop half a block to the southeast of the proposal site.

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