[...] more Health inspectors over to OCF Coffee Shop to make sure the coffee is safe to drink, a new very interesting post has appeared about Councilman Johnson’s own property on [...]

Thats right behind where I just bought my new house!!!

This is kind of stupid. I expect better of NP.

How is this stupid? It’s a valid comment on poor construction standards. is your point that you don’t care about construction standards and just want development news or is it something else?

Tell KJ I say hi.

That’s the down side of housing boom. Any manor of horribly designed and built homes are still profitable.

Now Chris Sawyer is stalking the homes of city council and making idiotic stories on nakedphilly that he can use links on his blog. Naked Philly should really check who they’re doing business with.

Oh I suspect this post is brought to NakedPhilly by Noah Webster. http://www.philadelinquency.com/?p=1420 [I like to post under my real name--whereas forum trolls don't really care for that all that much.]

It just seems petty and unworthy of a post here. Something to laugh about at the bar, not make a whole entry about.

Fair enough. It does have that gossip page flavor to it. Still ironic though how the Health department really, really, really cares so much about the quality of the coffee you’re drinking a block away, but another City department (L&I) might exactly not care how you go about venting fart gas out of the bathroom.

He lives in a new three story house with a roof deck? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Chris knew nothing about it until he read it on here. It was a fun post for me after the month of hell they put me through….was not suggesting I found Hoffa’s body. The NP editor did not want to post this and I may have overreached. Lesson learned.

Three stories with a roof deck??? What a hypocrite!!!! I can’t stand PB much longer- love my house, but hate the hood…gotta move soon!

I think the venting is odd, though creative. I think if I bought this home I would probably wanted it rerouted so I do not have to see the pipe sticking up next to my roof deck, but to each their own. If it was so detrimental I am sure the fine folks at L&I would have made an issue of it. I work for a very large developer and I see some of the issues they raise. Maybe because this home is not in center city it got a pass. Whatever the case, if the owner is happy wish them all the best.

I thought this post was stupid but since you’ve made yourself available, care to enlighten us as to how you got the property from the city for $500? You sold it for $312,500 so that’s a hell of deal. Looking forward to your response. Thanks!

You got that property for $500 from the city then sold it for $312,500? Damn. Must be nice. Right around the corner from that property (maybe 500 feet or so) the city is waging a war against against a developer who buys lots for what they’re actually worth (not that sweet $500 deal you got somehow). The city also tried to steal a couple of lots from the same developer…that he already purchased…at their actual value…not that sweet $500 deal you got.

Is Streamline the developer that built 1151 S. Dorrance and 2009 Federal Street? Answer truthfully. If so, you guys are completely disregarding permits and drawings and building whatever you want. 1151 S. Dorrance was built 7′ deeper than the permits allowed. LI missed it and had to be called back. Yes I am the one who called them. Licenses and Inspections misses a lot of stuff.

“The Streamline family is full of heart, integrity, intelligence, competence, determination and motivation. Just like me, my team pours everything they have into the business. For you to say otherwise is unacceptable and certainly shows a lack of integrity from where I’m standing. ” Then why did you make such an obvious construction error in the first place and then not correct it after it was discovered?

“Integrity, Passion, Courage, Collaboration, Innovation, Empowerment, Accountability, and Well being are the words we live by..” Might I suggest you focus less on canned Mission Statement rhetoric and more on building better houses?

There’s no way that party wall venting is legal. I’m sure somebody took a bribe over that. And yes it will be a pain for whomever builds on the lot next door. Looks like encroachment to me. That’ll be cheap though having to rip it out and run it through the roof or out a non-partywall like it is supposed to be. If I lived next door I’d sue the crap out of everyone involved in the POS.

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Violation: PERMB- WORK NOT SAME AS PERMIT
Violation: PERMZ- CONST REMOV CHANGE
Violation: PERMZ- LOC ON SITE DIFERS
Violation: SWO- CONSTR W/O BLDG PERMIT
Some of us care about the reputation of developers….we are not trying to pull fast ones on our communities and hoping to get away with it. Building a building multiple feet taller than is permitted on your plans and an extra 7′ deeper (20%+) is not working with your community and other developers. It is doing whatever you want whenever you want for the direct benefit of yourselves and no one else.

And please don’t waste your breath comparing this to the garden at 20th and Annin…one is a positive force for the community…the other is criminal.

FALSE: A lady who lived there for decades got that property for $500. The developer who hired Streamline as a general contractor paid market rate for the land from what I understand. This was listed on the MLS.

FALSE: Please walk through one of our homes and reflect on this statement. I am confident that you would feel differently. As I mentioned, our homes typically sell in less than 30 days.

FALSE: We did not buy it from the RDA nor did the developer we worked for. You can check phildox to see the chain of title. This was an MLS listing in the 40-50k range from what I remember.

FALSE: it is not encroachment. As im sure you know, there is an 8″ brick wall which seperates the two homes. the new home was build inside of that wall creating space between the wall and the property line

Again, the inspector said that it was fine so we went with it.

I was not arguing that you did not get permits. I was arguing that what was built in no way matched what was on the permits.

It is completely illegal…let’s call a spade a spade.

Again, its irrelevant because we were not the developer there. Our friend made a poor decision and YOU made him pay tremendously for that mistake. After YOU ruined his experience he decided that he didn’t want to move in the neighborhood! If you would like to discuss anything further, I would be glad to meet in person. Otherwise good luck with everything. We wish you the best!

I was basing it on the house in the picture you built and the fact the venting was clearly installed incorrectly yet you didn’t fix for whatever reason. – I don’t see the integrity, passion, etc. there.

There’s no way you could prove bribery if it came in the form of knocking a few K off the sale price and letting the new owner deal with it on his own… such things leave no paper trail even when in plain sight.

This is turning into a Real Housewives reunion in here… Anybody know of any other real estate blogs?

Then what was the sale price?

“We are not perfect but we ALWAYS intend to do things
the right way and we always take accountability for our mistakes.” You know instead of just ‘intending’ to do things the right way you could… wait for it… actually do it the right way.

[...] And on the same issue-based flyer, Concerned Citizens is now claiming that developers are falling all over themselves to build mansions in Point Breeze.  Yes, mansions. [...]

Thank you for clarifying about the sale price as I do not have access to Philadox. However, it sounds like your friend only has himself to blame. It seems the “experience” he wanted building a house in Point Breeze was doing whatever he wanted without consequences – not exactly a major loss for the neighborhood.

Feibush: While I’m not a fan of your approach or your personality, I largely agree with what you’re saying in this thread about Streamline’s work. Nevertheless, you’re a rat if you called L&I on anyone. I have no idea where you’re from, but that’s not the way things are done in South Philly, even on the west side of Broad. Admit it, you were the little kid who went crying to the teacher when the other kids picked on you.

I continue to be disappointed by the childish, devisive behavior of Mr. Feibush. You have the ability to play an instrumental role in revitalizing a tremendously underrated section of Philadelphia. Instead, you’re a jackass.

Agreed. Taking Naked off my reading list after this childish exchange. I lol’d… but mostly out of pity.