A seven-story building is planned beside the National
Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia in South Philadelphia, with a reception center for
pilgrims to the religious site and affordably priced senior housing.
Current proposals for the St. Rita Place & Cascia
Center project at the southeast corner of Broad and Ellsworth Streets call for
10,000 square feet of shrine-related facilities on the building's first and
second floors, said Nancy Bastian of architecture firm Cecil Baker + Partners,
which is designing the project.
It also will have 62 one-bedroom apartments accessible
through a separate entrance, Bastian said.
The project was presented Tuesday evening to the South
Broad Street Neighborhood Association, which will be asked to support zoning
variances for the site, now a parking lot, adjacent to the church that houses
the St. Rita shrine, she said.
A previous proposal for a one-story concrete facility
there fizzled amid complaints that the plan lacked ambition.
Source: Philly.com
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