Philadelphia YIMBY’s recent site visit has revealed that construction continues to make progress at 2046-50 Lehigh Avenue in East Kensington. The building, located on the southwest side of the block between between Frankford Avenue and Amber Street, will rise five stories and feature ground-floor commercial space as well as 21 residential units. Designed by Ambit Architecture, the structure will span 21,168 square feet and will feature parking for seven bicycles. Permits list Grit Construction as the contractor and a construction cost of $2.75 million.
2046-50 East Lehigh Avenue. Photo by Jamie Meller. March 2023
2046-50 East Lehigh Avenue. Photo by Jamie Meller. March 2023
The building is the latest addition to the long-neglected yet currently burgeoning Lehigh Avenue corridor, where hundreds of new residential units are being added on either side of the thoroughfare that runs along the train trestle that bisects Kensington north-south. The Huntingdon station on the Market-Frankford Line is situated within an eight-minute walk to the northwest, which sits next to the Episcopal Campus of Temple University Hospital and within a few blocks of the property at 1800-98 East Tusculum Street, which had served as a stand-in for the house of boxer Rocky Balboa in the Rocky film series.
2046-50 East Lehigh Avenue. Rendering credit: Ambit Architecture
2046-50 East Lehigh Avenue. Rendering credit: Ambit Architecture
2046-50 East Lehigh Avenue. Rendering credit: Ambit Architecture
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Love the white brick, balconies and curves, all replacing a dilapidated two-story industrial building occupied by an auto-centric business (that appears to have required sidewalk parking) that went kaput prior to September 2017.