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Apr 24
2012

Two New Homes Closing the Gap on Kimball Street

Less than a decade ago, the housing stock on the 1900 block of Kimball Street consisted of two rows of two-story homes, mostly of the severely blighted variety, as well as a decent amount of vacant land. By 2006, it was largely a blank slate, with almost every existing building demolished. (That had to be NTI, right?) Before the end of that year, new construction was ongoing on this block and its barely stopped since. Six years later, dozens of new homes have been constructed.

Probably 2008

The same shot, this week. Quite the difference.

One patch of stubbornly vacant land remains, though it’s currently shrinking.

Still vacant, mostly owned by Everbest Properties LLC

In February, two developers presented plans to SOSNA to build new homes on this block. Dermot Mccartan purchased 1909 Kimball St. for $80K at the end of last year, and currently has a foundation poured for the construction of a new, single family homes. The Nestler Group paid $107,500 for 1923 Kimball St., also at the end of last year, and has framed out a new single family home, as you can see above.

Foundation for 1909 Kimball St.

Everbest Properties owns five of the remaining six vacant lots in the middle of this block. They’ve owned these lots for several years, and we couldn’t tell you when they intend to build. We imagine the neighbors are hoping it happens sooner rather than later. In the meantime, at least the gap in the block is closing a little bit with the construction of these two new homes.

Baby steps, people. Baby steps.

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  • 3rd&Brown

    Wow. A whole block of Graduate Hospital Specials. Looks awful.

    This is exhibit A as to why garage front townhomes should not be allowed as the predominant housing typology. That street is fugly. It has not a single street tree, and in spite of the fact that it is now almost entirely occupied, it still looks barren and forelorn.

  • Vieux Pays

    Gotta love those electric and gas meters that greet you every morning at the front door.

  • Harold

    u people are geeks!

  • Serendipity

    No.  The slums are not preferable no matter how horribly ugly this street is.

  • http://twitter.com/F1rstCitizen First Citizen

    Blame PECO and PGW.  The only real way to get the meters indoors is to construct a facade with no room for the meters.  So in essence you just have to junk up the front of your building with something a little more aesthetically pleasing than meters.

  • http://twitter.com/F1rstCitizen First Citizen

    I don’t know, at least you don’t have to pay half a million dollars for the ugliness of the slums.

  • http://twitter.com/F1rstCitizen First Citizen

    My favorite bays are those two brick bays.  Stucco bays are bad enough since they suggest that the bay is a masonry element; brick goes way beyond suggestion.

  • Chocho

    My favorite facade is the stucco one in the last photo because eventually it will be covered up unlike the ones facing the street!

  • Harold

    premature blindness. yes 1980champs then I need to go there so I get blind and can’t see u ugly face u fat slob!

  • Harold

    demanding?  who the heck are you u terd!  when u buy u can demand u sissy!

  • Guest

    Wow. God the builders are so shitty in this neighborhood

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