An apartment building project set for 1300 Fairmount Ave.
is heading to a Zoning Board hearing at the end of the month after receiving
mostly praise from the Civic Design Review Committee Tuesday, according to a
report from PlanPhilly.
Earlier this year, City Council approved an ordinance to
change the zoning of the vacant property, which sits next to the Divine
Lorraine. The change gave New York-based RAL a chance to move forward with its
plan to build two apartment towers, townhomes and a supermarket at the site.
Members of some
local community groups, West Poplar CDC and the 14th Ward Democratic Executive
Committee, represented on the CDR Committee Tuesday asked for assurances that
all phases of the project would be built. The Committee said it couldn’t extract
promises of that nature, charged as it is with reviewing the public-realm
impacts of major development projects. The developers, Robert Levine and his
son, Spencer, said that they fully intend to build the whole project but they
don’t want to make all the apartments available at once.
The Zoning Board hearing is scheduled for Sept. 30.
Source: Philadelphia
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