Naked Philly Blog Posts Archive - Page 8 of 616 - OCF Realty

Jul 24

Another Student Housing High Rise Coming Soon on North Broad?

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Jul, 24, 2019 | No Comments | Temple Area

There's been a church at the southeast corner of Broad & Jefferson since shortly before the Civil War, with the Incarnation Protestant Episcopal Church making its home here for about a century. We don't know what that church looked like, as it was torn down in the 1960s and replaced by a new edifice, the current home of the Mount Olive Holy Temple. As churches go, this is not one of the finer structures you'll find, though [...]
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Jul 23

A Vacation Rental Company You’ve Never Heard Of is Driving Some Major Projects Downtown

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Jul, 23, 2019 | No Comments | Rittenhouse

We never really want to leave the comforts of Philadelphia, but still find ourselves going on the occasional vacation. And when planning a trip, a major decision point is whether a hotel or an Airbnb is the right choice in terms of accommodations. This decision-making process has become so second nature, one can easily forget that Airbnb wasn't even a thing until about a decade ago. For anyone who hasn't stayed in one before, Airbnb is generally awesome. Getting [...]
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Jul 22

Komplete Welding Moves to the ‘Burbs and Its Former Home is Going Residential

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Jul, 22, 2019 | No Comments | Francisville

We've always appreciated the architecture of two yellow buildings at the corner of 19th & Harper, even though they've been showing their age for quite some time. That condition is probably due to the fact that metalworker Komplete Welding occupied the two buildings for a number of years, and let's agree that metal fabrication is going to have more of an impact on a building than a residential use. The relatively poor condition of the building [...]
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Jul 19

Plans Change Significantly For Large East Kensington Lots, But Should Actually Move Forward Soon

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Jul, 19, 2019 | No Comments | East Kensington

East Kensington has flourished over the last several years, mostly because it's directly adjacent to Fishtown, and its lighter home prices have attracted buyers that want to live in this part of town on a lower budget. After years of disinvestment thanks to the departure of industry, there was a considerable amount of vacant land in East Kensington, and developers have bought up most of it and built hundreds of new homes. Also due to the [...]
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Jul 18

Apartment Building With a “View” Proposed on Aramingo

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Jul, 18, 2019 | No Comments | Fishtown

Like the US economy, the real estate market in Philadelphia has been running hot for about a decade, and we're now at the point in the development cycle that developers have gobbled up almost every obviously attractive parcel in desirable neighborhoods. This being the case, we're seeing more and more examples of projects that try to make the best of challenging development sites, as many developers find themselves faced with a lack of better options. [...]
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Jul 17

New Homes Appear Off Grays Ferry Avenue, Behind Former Bottom Dollar

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Jul, 17, 2019 | No Comments | Grays Ferry

Over the last several years, we've seen quite a bit of construction activity on the eastern edge of the Grays Ferry neighborhood, what we'd describe as development overflow from Point Breeze. As time goes by, we see occasional projects a little further west in the neighborhood, but nothing resembling the critical mass of construction that happened in Graduate Hospital maybe fifteen years ago, or in Point Breeze half a dozen years back. Still, bit by bit [...]
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Jul 16

Student Housing Project Looks to Push Northward into Mantua

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Jul, 16, 2019 | No Comments | West Philly

Later this summer, developers Temple Nest Apartments will got to the ZBA, seeking a variance to build a four-story building at 3526 Mount Vernon St., on a parcel that's currently sitting vacant. The building, as proposed, would contain 18 apartments which we have to think would target a student population, given that this developer specializes in that market. This project has a couple unique aspects though, which could make things interesting at the ZBA. Current view [...]
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Jul 15

Changes and Also Stability at 22nd & Christian

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Jul, 15, 2019 | No Comments | Graduate Hospital

A couple readers have reached out of late, wondering about ongoing and upcoming changes at the intersection of 22nd & Christian. And the curiosity is understandable, given the surprising amount of action here, in a neighborhood that sees less and less construction these days. Let's go around the horn, shall we? New home off the southwest corner Maybe a year ago, a fire severely damaged the two properties closest to the southwest corner such that both [...]
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Jul 12

Renovation of Legendary Blue Horizon is, uh, on the Horizon

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Jul, 12, 2019 | No Comments | Temple Area

We were traveling up North Broad Street the other day and noticed some significant progress on the new building at 1310 N. Broad St., a project we first told you about a year and a half ago. You may recall, an unimpressive two story building stood at this address, which was most recently used as a banquet hall. With new ownership, the old building is now gone and a new five-story building is rising in its place. [...]
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Jul 11

Literally, There’s a Shiny New Building at 10th & Buttonwood

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Jul, 11, 2019 | No Comments | Loft District

If you're traveling through or near Callowhill, there's a new building under construction that's quite eye catching. Sure, any construction in any part of town makes our radar bleep, but this particular project would draw the attention of even the most oblivious phone gazer due to one very specific characteristic- its sheathing. Most wood-framed new construction gets covered in either plywood or green zip system panels, but the project at 1001 Buttonwood St. is sheathed in something [...]
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