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Permits Issued for Nine-Unit Residential Building at 1258 South 45th Street in Spruce Hill, West Philadelphia

8:00 am on November 7, 2026 By YIMBY Team

Permits have been issued for the construction of a three-story, nine-unit residential building at 1258 South 45th Street in Spruce Hill, West Philadelphia. The development will span 8,523 square feet of new construction area and feature a cellar, three private roof decks, and three individual roof-deck access structures. KORE Architecture is responsible for the designs. TNA Builders LLC is listed as the contractor.

One uCity Square. Credit: ZGF Architects

Construction Progresses at One uCity Square, Bringing 389,000 Square Feet of Office, Lab, and Retail to University City in West Philadelphia

8:00 am on December 3, 2021 By Vitali Ogorodnikov

The 29th Place on Philly YIMBY’s December 2021 Development Countdown goes to One uCity Square, a mixed-use building currently under construction in University City, West Philadelphia. Designed by ZGF Architects and developed by Wexford Science & Technology, the University City Science Center, and Ventas Inc., with Turner Construction as the contractor, the $280-million 13-story building will hold 389,000 square feet of office, laboratory, and retail space. The 250-foot-tall building, also known as Wexford One uCity Square, is part of the greater mixed-use uCity Square development, which will feature 10.5 million square feet within 15 existing and 10 newly-constructed buildings. New construction will account for three-quarters of the total square footage.