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Jun 12
2012

Next to Rail Tracks, Construction Underway at Paseo Verde

Transit-oriented development. It’s got a ring to it, and in places like Sweden and Denmark it’s been happening for decades. It’s the kind of urban development that provides mixed-use buildings close to transit stations, and it’s something that we’ve been only marginally successful with in Philadelphia over the years.

At 9th and Norris Streets, near Temple University, a huge lot has been razed and construction trailers and equipment are on site immediately adjacent to the Temple University regional rail station. Here, a 120-unit project called Paseo Verde Transit Village Residencies (1900 N. 9th St.) will soon rise.

The corner

Looking south at the site

In a neighborhood ripe with development, this project, on which developers broke ground in February, is slated for completion in the summer of 2013, and will feature 67 market-rate and 53 affordable housing one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. The mixed-use development will also include about 30K sqft of commercial space. That includes a health center operated by Public Health Management Corporation, and new headquarters for the Asociación de Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM), a development partner on this project, along with Jonathan Rose Companies. The remainder of the commercial space will be used as a community center for residents to congregate, host meetings, and access technological resources. APM, a Latino-based health, human services, community and economic non-profit organization will provide courses on subjects like financial literacy.

Check out these renderings, from Wallace Roberts & Todd:

This project looks sharp

Nice design, and green roofs!

Striking at night

Elevations

Additional elevations

“Really [transit-oriented development is] a tool that features many facets that help bring about a sustainable community,” said Rose Gray of APM. She said it’s a theme cities like L.A. and Chicago have followed for a decade now. The project will include sustainable elements and will be LEED certified.

With this development, and countless student housing projects only blocks away, the Temple neighborhood is being revitalized almost as fast as the school’s football program, which may yet crack the top 25 sometime soon, and has produced a couple of NFL draft picks in recent years.

Can’t wait to see what’s next.

–Lou Mancinelli

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  • Anonymous

    Remind me what year Temple’s football program ranked in the top 25, again? I’d also accept a substitution of the phrase “recent years” to  ”1979.”  

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/639147-2011-college-football-rankings-rating-the-longest-suffering-fans-in-the-country/page/6

  • thegreengrass

    I love this project.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001415182229 Lewis Fernrock

    Me too

  • http://www.philadelphiaheights.wordpress.com/ phl

    I think it should also include some actual stores in the commercial space.

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

    This is what you get when you hire a real architect.

  • EricClayWarner

    Really, parking? You must not understand what transit oriented development is. 

  • Mba19067

    What are the chances of a Owl Football Stadium in the near future? And where?

  • eddiekanejr

    No this butts right up to the wall of the train station.  The parking was for PGW employees who have taken to parking in PGW’s parking lots further south and to street parking around the PGW buildings. 

  • AMAC

    thanks for the info! not from that neighborhood so not up on what’s going on there. is there any development going on across the street? according to google streets view, almost all that land is cleared of row homes and it looks a like prime site for new construction like the kind that’s happening here.

  • http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/06/community-parks-need-a-cleaning-and-money/ Community Parks Need A Cleaning—And Money | Hidden City Philadelphia

    [...] Philly is excited to see the beginning of construction of Paseo Verde Transit Village Residencies, a 120-unit apartment complex and another foray towards the trending focus of “transit-oriented [...]

  • Vieux Pays

    90% of the land across the street is city owned and Councilman Clarke won’t release it.  Currently, the city and PHA are applying for a grant to put low income PHA rentals across the street.  Gotta keep pimping the poverty.

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

    Indeed, subsidies are a help.  I would be surprised if it does look like the renderings after all is said and done.  Architects do like to draw pretty pictures, but a lot of the time nice cladding on projects like this is one of the first things to be value engineered out.

  • http://nakedphilly.com/temple/more-student-housing-coming-near-temple-way-on-the-outskirts/ More Student Housing Coming Near Temple, Way on the Outskirts | NakedPhilly

    [...] housing in the neighborhoods surrounding Temple University, and just this week told you about Paseo Verde, a mixed-use project with market-rate and affordable housing immediately next to the Regional Rail [...]

  • http://nakedphilly.com/temple/what-will-south-gateway-mean-for-off-campus-student-housing-at-temple/ What Will South Gateway Mean for Off Campus Student Housing at Temple? | NakedPhilly

    [...] by a small-time developer, to medium-sized multi-unit buildings, to more massive projects like Paseo Verde and Diamond Green. What’s been true about every one of these projects is that Temple has had [...]

  • Guest

     A project of this size, something like the green roofs would be more likely to be VE’d out than cladding.  An architecture firm would typically only promote the most current renderings, so since this project is under construction, you can bet the final product will look like the renderings.

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

    Green roofs SHOULD be VE’d out but they’ll stay in because of water dept stormwater management requirements.

  • http://nakedphilly.com/temple/update-paseo-verde-is-moving-along-nicely-next-to-temple/ Update: Paseo Verde is Moving Along Nicely, Next to Temple | NakedPhilly

    [...] mostly because student housing is virtually all that’s going up in the area. But Paseo Verde, a project we first told you about over the summer, is very much an exception to that rule. This mixed-use development at 1900 N 9th St. will, when [...]

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