Permits Issued for 2516 North 6th Street in North Philadelphia East

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, four-unit rowhouse at 2516 North 6th Street in North Philadelphia East. The structure will replace a portion of a large vacant lot on the east side of the block between West Cumberland Street and West Huntingdon Street. Designed by Plato Marinakos, Jr. of Plato Studio, the structure will span 5,271 square feet and will feature a basement and two roof decks extending for a total of 967 square feet. Permits list Yona Construction as the contractor and specify a construction cost of $700,000.

2516 North 6th Street. Site plan. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

2516 North 6th Street. Site plan. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

The structure will measure 18 feet wide, 29 feet high to the main roof (38 feet high to the roof access pilot houses), and 75 feet deep, with a 22-foot-deep backyard. According to the building section included in the zoning submission, the basement will be used for residential space.

Over the past 20 or so years, North Central Philadelphia, with North Philadelphia East in particular, has experienced significant real estate development that is finally reversing a decades-long postwar period of depopulation and demolitions. Temple University, with its ever-growing demand for off-campus student housing, drives much of this real estate growth.

2516 North 6th Street. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

2516 North 6th Street. Site conditions prior to redevelopment. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

2516 North 6th Street, situated within a roughly mile-long walk of the university campus, is at the vanguard of the development surge; the project will be the first new building on the significantly dilapidated block to be constructed since the postwar period. Since a developer found such a “remote” (in relation to the university) property viable for development, we expect more construction to follow on the ample adjacent vacant space in the coming years.

This, of course, is good news not only for housing-seeking university students, but also for the long-established blue-collar community within the area, which will finally see a long-overdue revival of their demolition-blighted streetscape.

2516 North 6th Street sits within a 15- to 20-minute walk of the adjacent North Philadelphia stations of the Broad Street subway and the regional rail. Route 39 and 47 buses service the immediate vicinity of the proposed development. Fairhill Square Park, Veterans Playground, and Nelson Playground are all situated within a roughly five-minute walk.

2516 North 6th Street. Zoning table. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

2516 North 6th Street. Property deed detail. Credit: Plato Studio via the City of Philadelphia

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