Rendering of the proposed 6-story addition with 220 apartments over Garden Court Plaza’s parking garage at 4701 Pine Street (Image by BLT Architects).
The owners of Garden Court Plaza, the 14-story apartment building located at 4701 Pine Street, are porposing a 220-unit addition above the complex’s ground floor parking garage.
The project is “by right,” meaning it complies with the zoning code (CMX-3) and variances are not required. However, due to its scale, the project has to be approved by the City Planning Commission’s Civic Design Review Committee.
The Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) is hosting a virtual community meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 25 at 6:30 p.m. Community members can participate in the meeting online via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/92539058123 or by phone: 646-558-8656. Written comments will be accepted after the meeting.
The developer, the New York City based firm Infinity Collective, has shared their Civic Design Review submission with GCCA. You can learn more by visiting their website.
A six-story 243-unit addition to the building was proposed in early 2018, but the project was placed on hold following a public meeting where many neighbors voiced their concerns.
August 21st, 2020 at 10:26 am
Not in my back yard!
August 21st, 2020 at 10:46 am
Oh cool, New York developers …
August 21st, 2020 at 4:56 pm
Works for me! More housing = better affordability, more people = better funded schools. And I don’t want to hear any whining about parking. It is not your right to store your personal property on public property for free or nearly free.
August 21st, 2020 at 5:52 pm
“More housing = better affordability, more people = better funded schools”.
These are the fairy tales that developers and their acolytes tell us. It ain’t necessarily so, at all.
And notice how badly they want to avoid legitimate concerns about parking, too…
August 21st, 2020 at 6:16 pm
If there really is good evidence that building these 220 units will lower our rents and make better schools for all of us, then let’s see it!
August 21st, 2020 at 9:29 pm
More people = more wage tax revenue
More housing = more Business Income & Receipts Tax (BIRT), and more Net Profit Tax (NPT) revenue
August 21st, 2020 at 9:38 pm
So now it’s proven! We should just let them fill in every square inch of open space and build up to the sky on all the existing buildings! Then life is gonna be paradise around here!
August 21st, 2020 at 10:41 pm
We all know the thing about broken clocks being right twice a day. In keeping with such, I’d say this is A.D.’s moment.
August 22nd, 2020 at 12:13 am
I have to say, as a current tenant, the disorganization and often total lack of communication management is absolutely atrocious in the budding. Most of the tenants are being forced to leave the current building because management is not offering lease renewals for more than 6 months and are jacking up rent again to the point where the last remaining tenants are being forced out. Can’t wait to see how awful the situation gets with MORE units to deal with.
August 22nd, 2020 at 10:31 am
“Neighbor” is exactly right. New neighbors are not a bad thing. And there’s no such thing as “legitimate concerns about parking.” I don’t demand anyone let me stick my unused vacuum cleaner in their closet. If you don’t have a place to store your empty car, that’s no one else’s problem. This sounds like an excellent development & it’s great news that the NIMBYs can’t block it
August 22nd, 2020 at 10:57 am
It boggles the mind that as pandemic looms large over the world and its future, we are told that there should be no limits to crowding people together into the City. Only the market rules in this constricted view, built on the sanctity of Private Property and the Capitalist Ethic.
August 22nd, 2020 at 1:16 pm
Back to the broken clock.
AD, if you really do oppose capitalism just say so, but you sound like a Democrat. If so you should stop acting like you’re anri-capitalist; it’s an either/or.
August 22nd, 2020 at 1:43 pm
In this time of pandemic, voting against Trump is important to most of us, wherever we might be politically. It is a question of survival, in order to keep struggling for a better world.
The “free market” ethos which informs the really dumb claims for an unbridled capitalism in our local real estate market is very much connected to the global trend of hard right strongmen enforcing ethno-nationalism. It is literally killing us.
August 25th, 2020 at 8:24 pm
Sold out by our elected officials yet again. Big money talks and we citizens have to walk. So tried of all this crap.
August 26th, 2020 at 8:46 am
“The System isn’t broken- it was built that way”. With such big money focused on squeezing profit out of Philly, we know which way the wind will blow. We are going to have to build power from the bottom up to make things change.
August 26th, 2020 at 5:58 pm
Why are all these people living here? It’s almost like we’re living in a city!
Wait, what’s that? It’s not the burbs? And cities have population density? Get out of here.
August 26th, 2020 at 6:54 pm
But some of us are more equal than others
(Equal rights, equal rights.)
Some of us are more equal than brothers
(Equal rights, equal rights.)
Kapital make the world go round
(Kapital make the world round)…
https://youtu.be/oprWZttVhCE