Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, four-unit residential building at 2325 Germantown Avenue in Hunting Park, North Philadelphia. The new structure will rise from a currently vacant situated at the southeast corner of West Erie Avenue and North 13th Street. Designed by the KCA Design Associates, the building will span 5,104 square feet and will feature a basement and a roof deck. Permits list RTW Accommodations as the contractor.
Construction costs are listed at $415,000, lending a total of around $81 per interior square foot. Permits specify $355,000 toward general construction and $60,000 for excavation work.
2325 Germantown Avenue. Zoning diagram. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
2325 Germantown Avenue. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
2325 Germantown Avenue. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
2325 Germantown Avenue. Proposed site plan. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
The rowhouse-style structure will measure 16 feet wide (along West Erie Avenue) and 80 feet long (North 13th Street). A 12-foot-wide yard will sit behind the building along 13th Street. The structure will rise 35 feet to the main roof and 45 feet to the top of the roof access stair pilot house. The ground level will sit four feet above the sidewalk level; floor-to-ceiling heights will measure nine feet on the above-ground floors and eight feet in the basement.
2325 Germantown Avenue. Proposed building elevation. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
The building is designed in a common contemporary style where the main facade is clad in brick, with accents of rectangular panels and horizontal siding around windows. Although rudimentary in comparison to its stately, if dilapidated, prewar rowhouse counterparts, its construction will mark a significant milestone towards a revival of a relatively significant intersection, one that is outfitted with protected bike paths and dedicated bus lanes yet with vacant lots currently taking up each of its four corners.
2325 Germantown Avenue. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: KCA Design Associates via a zoning permit submitted to the City of Philadelphia
As is often the case with vacant lot redevelopment, an unfortunate downside of the proposal is that it will block a large mural from view, which brought delight to the neighborhood and spruced up an otherwise drab intersection for many years.
The Erie station on the Broad Street subway line sits two short blocks to the west. Route B1, B1 OWL, B2, B3, 16, 53, and 56 buses run in the vicinity of the proposal site.
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The correct address is 1240 W. Erie Ave.
Yesterday, YIMBY posted this project with the title “Four-Unit Residential Development Approved At 1240 West Erie Avenue In North Philadelphia”.
Here’s my comment from yesterday about this development:
The impetus for this development may have been the ongoing reconstruction of the complex and hazardous Erie Ave., Germantown Ave., and Broad St. intersection. Designed to improve safety for pedestrians, bikers, and motorists, the project extends three blocks from Old York Rd. west to just beyond Broad St.
The trolley tracks have been paved over, there are two new protected bike lanes, the sidewalks are rebuilt, and there are curb bump outs to shorten crossing distance and speed humps to slow traffic. The street has been restriped with the addition of two dedicated bus lanes. The red lights are longer to allow safer pedestrian movement. There are street trees in strips covered with elegant Belgian Block.
In addition, the aging Erie Avenue bridge over the abandoned Conrail line was removed and replaced with a new at-grade road. The project includes the creation of two new public plazas (Butler Triangle and Erie Triangle) with landscaping, seating, and art. An elevator is being built to provide Americans with Disabilities Act-accessible connection from the new Erie Triangle to the Broad Street Line Erie Station.
It’s a bit unfortunate this building will result in the effacement of the poignant “I see the ripple effect in front of me” mural on the house next door but Mural Arts Executive Director Jane Golden will be the first to tell you that wall art is impermanent. Nonetheless, we can honor the piece by remembering its words “I see now that I can make a difference to someone and no longer be forgotten. So I ask myself forgiveness for thinking that I had no worth within myself or to anyone else”.
2340 West Erie Avenue in Huntington Park?? the pictures are from yesterday’s post about 1240 West Erie
And this post is about 2325 Germantown Avenue in Hunting Park? What’s happening….