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Feb 23
2012

Houses With Parking Replacing Parking Without Houses on Lombard St.

According to the agenda for next week’s CCRA zoning meeting, an eleven home development is in the works at 1803-29 Lombard St., currently a surface parking lot.

Current view

A couple of meetings have already taken place regarding “Lombard Estates,” and we’ve got the scoop thanks to a couple of insider sources. Noah Ostroff, local realtor and all around nice guy, is the developer behind this ambitious project. Ostroff, fresh off his successful three home development on the 1800 block of Kater St., is kicking it up a notch and has retained Vincent Mancini of Landmark Architectural Design for this project.

The eleven homes will all be four stories tall, with rear access, at-grade parking through a single curb cut. There will be a common drive that’s located behind the homes to provide access to the parking spaces. The homes will have no official rear yards, as this space will be taken up by the parking and the driveway. From what we understand, there will be rear decks off the second floor that will serve as de facto yards.

The design is expected to resemble Landmark’s proposed project at 3rd and Brown Sts.

Homes at 3rd and Brown Sts.

Near neighbors seem to be generally in support of this development, though some are rightly concerned about the close proximity of the second floor decks to the rear property line. We imagine it will be a couple of months and a couple of revisions before everyone is holding hands and singing kumbaya.

And the best news about these proposed homes? Very easy access to Tangier. Yum.

It's happy hour somewhere, right?


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  • Anonymous

    Crud. I guess that means one of the zipcar pods I use the most is being eliminated. 

  • Anonymous

    Kinda surprised with how expensive the land is in center city now that townhouses are still economically feasible.

  • Guest

    Suggest you dig a little deeper before you state that “near neighbors seem to be generally in support of this development”.  Would that be according to the developer?  Have you actually spoken with a near neighbor?

  • http://twitter.com/brianbrews Brian Marsh

    Try that Phillycarshare spot across the street.

  • Anonymous

    I dropped my membership with them many moons ago. But if there’s a PCS pod close by, maybe zipcar can get one too. Thanks.

  • Near Neighbor

     As a Near Neighbor I speak for Near Neighbors everywhere when I say I support this project.

  • me

    3rd and Brown?  I don’t think it ever happened.

  • http://twitter.com/ThisOldCity This Old City

    Awesome. Anything to enliven Lombard a bit more. Though dedicated parking doesn’t make my inner urbanist sing, rear access is preferred. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608975509 Terry Nicol

    Generally?

  • 3rd&Brown

    Um, that “proposed” project at 3rd&Brown was the best of a litany of proposed projects that I’ve seen for 3rd&Brown, but alas, it never happened. (Though in that rendering, those houses are actually duplexes). Anyways, somebody please buy the overpriced lot at 3rd&Brown. I’m tired of that blight.

    Signed,
    3rd&Brown

  • http://nakedphilly.com/rittenhouse/one-second-thought-neighbors-not-so-thrilled-with-new-development-on-lombard-st/ One Second Thought, Neighbors Not So Thrilled With New Development on Lombard St. | NakedPhilly

    [...] week, we told you about Lombard Estates, Noah Ostroff’s 11-home development planned for 1803-29 Lombard St., which is currently functioning as a parking lot. At the time, we [...]

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