Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, three-unit residential building at 2432 North Marshall Street in North Philadelphia East. The development will replace a vacant lot on the west side of the block between West York and West Cumberland streets. Designed by JT Ran Expediting, the structure will hold 3,661 square feet of interior space and feature a cellar and a roof deck. Permits list JPL Construction as the contractor and specify a construction cost of $300,000.
2432 North Marshall Street. Site location. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
2432 North Marshall Street. Site location. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
2432 North Marshall Street. Zoning submission. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
2432 North Marshall Street. Site plan. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
The structure will measure 16 feet wide and 59 feet deep, with a 15-foot-deep, 298-square-foot rear yard. The building will rise 35 feet to the main roof (38 feet to the parapet and 45 feet to the top of the bulkhead). The ground floor will rise four feet above the sidewalk, while floor-to-floor heights will measure ten-and-a-half feet at the ground floor and ten feet at the floors above. The 662-square-foot roof deck will be reserved for exclusive use of residents of unit #3.
The building’s street-facing exterior, comprised of brick cladding, vinyl siding on the shallow upper-floor cantilever, and a raised front stoop, is virtually identical to another similarly-scaled rowhouse proposed by the same development team nearby to the east at 2405 North 6th Street.
2432 North Marshall Street. Existing site conditions. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
2432 North Marshall Street. Existing site conditions. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
2432 North Marshall Street will rise in what may be considered the northeast periphery of the general Temple University area, with the university’s campus situated within a roughly 15- to 20-minute walk to the southwest (the Susquehanna-Dauphin Station on the Broad Street line sits within a 17-minute walk to the west-southwest). The proposal, situated half a block to the east of the magnificent and imposing, Gothic-styled Highway Temple of Deliverance at 2401 North 8th Street, is the latest addition to a gradual yet unrelenting construction boom that is restoring the urban fabric of a formerly densely built-out rowhouse neighborhood.
2432 North Marshall Street. Zoning table. Credit: JT Ran Expediting via the City of Philadelphia
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Its time for the ICAA or the Philadelphia Mayor’s office to conduct a charette to come up with prototypes of acceptable infill houses for their city. These boxes with no design don’t make for a City Beautiful. They appear every day, as do weeds. Certainly, there could be more inspiring proposals buildable on a budget.