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Nov 29
2011

Six Unit Building Progressing Nicely Across from St. Joseph’s Hospital

Arthur Faber LLC purchased 922-26 N 17th St., three vacant lots between Cambridge St. and Girard Ave., for $157.5K about a year ago. The property owners went to zoning for a variance to turn the three lots into one, and construct a six-family home at this site. As you can see, things are moving along, albeit a little more slowly than one might expect for a project that went to zoning a year ago.

Waiting for a facade

It's a big boy

Located in Francisville, just to the north of Ridge Ave., the project is surrounded by a mix of properties that captures the spirit of this changing neighborhood. Immediately to the north is a small, boarded up home that looks like it was once a pretty little house. Immediately to the west on Cambridge St. are four recently constructed homes, with a large vacant lot next door, ready for the next phase of building. To the south, a vacant lot owned by PHA, two PHA homes, and a beautiful mural. And to the east, Saint Joseph’s, an architecturally disturbing community hospital with a primarily low-income patient population.

The little house to the north

Newish homes to the west

Vacant lot to the west of the newish homes

Empty PHA lot, mural, PHA homes to the south

Hospital to the east

Hopefully, as Francisville continues to gentrify, it won’t lose the character that makes it so interesting today.

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  • Omp835

    Nice to see something with a little density! 

  • Omp835

    …instead of your typical rowhome, that is : P

  • Eldondre

    why are there no windows on the side? any idea how many bedrooms for each unit?

  • Eldondre

    also, did you see construction at 17th and poplar?

  • Anonymous

    There are no windows on the side because it’s not the corner property. The hospital owns the corner lot, believe it or not. Whether they ever plan to do anything with it is anybody’s guess.

    As far as # of bedrooms go, we don’t have that info, unfortunately.

  • Anonymous

    You mean the foundation on the corner? If so, yup.

  • Eldondre

    any idea what that foundation will be (or is that to come sometime in the future)? can’t imagine that lot being very useful to the hospital now that the lot next door has been built on. too bad they weren’t able to buy that lot as well.

  • http://nakedphilly.com/fairmount/mixed-use-building-coming-to-17th-and-poplar-sts/ Mixed Use Building Coming to 17th and Poplar Sts.? | NakedPhilly

    [...] To the north, you can see another project (slowly) moving along that we covered a couple of weeks back. [...]

  • Sanford Arch

    All units are designed as 2 bedrooms, 2 baths.

  • http://blog.philadelphiarealestate.com/st-joes-hospital-area-residential-new-construction-waits/ St. Joe’s Hospital area residential new construction waits | Philadelphia Real Estate Blog

    [...] was listed in June 2010 for $52,500 and then sold in October 2010 for $45,000. In November 2011, NakedPhilly.com reported on the property becoming a six-family home and that it had been through zoning a whole [...]

  • http://nakedphilly.com/francisville-2/more-new-construction-planned-next-to-slowly-moving-francisville-project/ More New Construction Planned Next to Slowly Moving Francisville Project | NakedPhilly

    [...] back in the fall of 2011, we told you about a six-unit project going up near the corner of 17th & Cambridge in Francisville. At the time, we commented that [...]

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