Demolition permits have been filed for a two-story single-family structure at 2459 North Bouvier Street in North Central Philadelphia. The vacant building spans 1,200 square feet. Ghafary Nazir is the listed owner. FH Demolition is the listed contractor. The cost of work is listed at $9,999. The demolition will be a part of the City of Philadelphia demolition program.
Philadelphia’s largest currently planned structure sits not in a booming district such as Center City or University City, but in a low-density area on the city’s outskirts in Northeast Philadelphia. A 1,004,000-square-foot UPS package sortation and distribution facility is proposed at 1 Red Lion Road in Bustleton, Northeast Philadelphia. The development comes from a collaboration between Commercial Development Company, Inc., Blue Rock, Bohler, and NORR. The 140-acre sits sits at the northeast corner of Red Lion Road and Sandmeyer Lane in an industrially zoned area.
A five-story mixed-use residential and retail structure is proposed at 49 St. George’s Road in Ardmore, PA. The building will add 150 residences and 10,000 to 15,000 square feet of retail space to Suburban Square, completing the shopping mall’s multi-phase transformation into a mixed-use “lifestyle center.” Developer Kimco Realty Trust expects a groundbreaking late next year or at the start of 2022.
Earlier this month, tenants began moving in to Promenade at Upper Dublin, a mixed-use residential and retail complex at 1100 Market Street in Dresher, PA. Two expansive, five-story buildings, with retail at the ground floor and 402 rental apartments above, will provide a dense, walkable urban node for the sprawling suburban community in Montgomery County north of Philadelphia. BET Investments Inc. is the developer behind the project. BET Investments Inc. is the developer behind the $200 million project.
In recent years, Fishtown and greater Kensington have seen an increase in real estate development, which continues in recent months with a string of permit filings, as tracked by Philly YIMBY. While the majority of the projects involve ground-up construction, One of the neighborhood’s largest ongoing developments refurbishes the Harbisons Dairy, a local landmark located at 2041-2055 Coral Street. SgRA Architects are in charge of the design for the historically-protected building into a 55 apartments, extending the structure by two stories, and preserving and repainting the Harbisons Dairy milk bottle, a water tower that doubles as a local skyline icon.
