Grocery Store Being Replaced by 44 Homes in Philly

According to Curbed Philadelphia, a Vietnamese grocery store that has occupied a parcel in South Philadelphia will face the wrecking ball as a new project by local developer Streamline is slated to build a total of 44 new homes including 22 attached single-family structures, five two-family structures, and two six-family structures. The project still needs to pass muster with the city via a Civic Design Review (CDR).

The first two rows of buildings, which are separated by a drive aisle, will have three-bed, single-family townhouses. A small courtyard with outdoor seating separates the single family homes from from the third row of buildings, which features two-family structures, flanked on either side by six-family buildings.

The layout of the buildings, with single-family dwellings at the top, and multi-family at the bottom. Harman Deutsch, via CDRPlans include 13,000 square feet of open area and 22 parking spots, available from the drive aisle off 16th Street. The exteriors will mix fiber cement siding and metal with synthetic wood garage doors, according to the plans.

The project is the latest in several major developments along—or near—that stretch of Washington Avenue. One of the most notable is Lincoln Square, which wrapped up last year with multi-family housing, shops, and a Sprouts grocery store at a previously vacant lot on Broad and Washington.