The last few decades have seen enormous changes in the
Logan Square neighborhood.
Most recently the Whole Foods flagship landed there,
complete with cocktail cart and butcher’s block.
The Barnes Foundation is one of several institutions
within the neighborhood.
The Philadelphia Latter Day Saints Temple now rises on
Vine Street and a related residential high-rise is under construction.
The Barnes Foundation made the Benjamin Franklin
Parkway’s museum offerings even more robust.
Residential infill is replacing historic buildings like
the former Please Touch Museum and low-rise commercial structures alike. Vacant
and underutilized parcels have been snapped up and filled in throughout the
neighborhood, from Broad Street to the Schuylkill, from Market to Spring Garden
streets.
“The parts that can still be developed are few and far
between,” says Drew Murray, president of the Logan Square
Neighborhood Association. “There are only a few open-air lots left that can be
developed, all of them south of the Parkway.”
A remapping bill working its way through City Council is
meant to lock in what is already there—like the charmingly incongruous rowhouse
100 block of North Mole Street amid a forest of institutional uses—while
scrapping outdated zoning designations.
Initiated by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association,
the process unfolded over 18 months.
Go to PlanPhilly.com for
more details on the remapping bill.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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