Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story single-family residential building at 2349 Gerritt Street in Point Breeze, South Philadelphia. Designed by J Design and Consultants LLC, the development will span 1,512 square feet and will include a basement and a roof deck. EL-EM Real Estate LLC is listed as the contractor.
Construction costs are specified at $250,000, which includes $150,000 for general construction, $25,000 each for plumbing and electrical work, and $50,000 for mechanical systems.
2349 Gerritt Street Elevation via J Design and Consultants LLC
Zoning documents indicate that the lot measures 14 feet by 48 feet, totaling 672 square feet. Plans call for a building footprint of 501 square feet, covering 75 percent of the lot, with a 12-foot rear yard providing 168 square feet of open space. The structure will rise 36 feet to the main roof, below the district height cap of 38 feet, and 39-and-a-half feet to the parapet. A 94-square-foot pilot house will provide stair access to the roof deck.
Architectural drawings illustrate a rowhouse-style three-story structure with a flat roofline and a pilot house set back from the front façade.
The property is located on Gerritt Street between South 23rd and South 24th Streets, directly across from Wharton Square Playground. Transit access is available via Ellsworth–Federal Station on the Broad Street Line, roughly a 23-minute walk away, and via SEPTA bus routes 39 and 47, which run along nearby Susquehanna Avenue and 7th Street.
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Google Maps, April 2025, shows that there is an attractive three-story home at 2349 Gerritt St. The October 2019 view displays ongoing excavation, suggesting completion occurred sometime in 2020. The front facade’s patterned tan brick is elegant. The under-the-steps hideaway is a useful way of storing trash cans.
The 2300 block of Gerritt St. is now intact, have transformed in 14 years from blight (boarded up homes, vacant lots, heaps of garbage, cars parked partially on the sidewalk, nary a street tree) to right (well, there are still no street trees and some but not all cars are still parked partially on the sidewalk). But the homes appear well maintained and the sidewalk and street are litter-free.