Six three-story multi-family buildings have been proposed at 2223, 2227, 2229, 2233, 2237, and 2239 North 33rd Street in Strawberry Mansion, North Philadelphia, across from Fairmount Park. Designed by 24 Seven Design Group LLC, the four buildings at 2223 through 2233 North 33rd Street will each feature five apartments each, and the structures at 2237 and 2239 North 33rd Street will each come with four units, giving a total new unit count of 28. Each of the permits lists Catalyst Builders LLC as the contractor, and, although the structures appear of to slightly vary in square footage (spanning from 3,072 to 5,000 square feet), construction costs for each one is specified at $300,000.
According to city databases, owners vary for most of the properties (three of the parcels are listed under an entity bearing the baffling name of “CRUD LLC”), yet the buildings’ apparently shared designs, architects, contractors, and other properties indicate that they are being developed in tandem. Permits were issued at the end of last December, when numerous developers rushed to secure permits in order to take advantage of the full ten-year tax abatement for new residential construction, which expired at the end of the year.
Although no exterior renderings nor elevations are available, site plans indicate that the buildings will be fine examples of contextual, site-appropriate infill. The buildings will rise from nearby yet non-contiguous vacant lots on the block between West Susquehanna Avenue and West Dauphin Street, where some of the stately four-story rowhouses that line the park have since been demolished, creating gaps in the streetwall that glare like missing teeth.
According to the site plans, each building will exactly match the dimensions of the setback from the street, covered porches, raised basements, and the rear extent of the existing prewar buildings. We hope that the exterior design will also be on par with the surrounding development, which is a distinct possibility as the designs call for bay windows on the second and third floors. The buildings will boast lofty, roughly ten-foot-high ceilings.
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This sounds too good to be true, but hopefully it is not. Regardless, any infill is good infill, particularly in this neighborhood.
These guys did the beauties at 1925-1929 too! I can’t wait to see what these newer ones look like!
We may have to wait a while, I think they just wanted to stick their foot in the door before it closed on the full abatement.