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Zoning · Completed

Zoning: Zoning Permit

1630 CHESTNUT ST

FOR THE ERECTION OF ONE (1) STATICALLY ILLUMINATED WALL SIGN AND FIVE (5) NON-ILLUMINATED WALL SIGNS. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN APPLICATION/PLANS

Council district
District 2
Developer / applicant
FORMAN SIGN COMPANY INC
ZIP
19103-5119
Approved
Feb 3, 2026
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Kenyatta Johnson
District 2 · D
215-686-0461
City Hall Room 408
721 projects in this district
1832 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Center City Residents Association (CCRA)
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Travis Oliver
2155466719
Meets: BEX Meeting Space, 2005 Market St and via Zoom
Neighborhood context (census tract 000701)
Median income
$86,809
Renter occupied
74.84%
Rent burdened
40.47%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
1,807
ACS 5-year 2022

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within 400m walk
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Displacement signal

L&I demolition permits, last 3 yrs, within 400m

Philly doesn't publish eviction filings, so this uses demolition permits as the closest proxy for housing stock loss in the immediate area. 7 permits found.

213 S 17TH STApr 2, 2025
215 S 17TH STFeb 18, 2025
1812-14 CHESTNUT STJun 25, 2024
1816 CHESTNUT STJun 25, 2024
1821 SANSOM STNov 3, 2023
1824 CHESTNUT STOct 27, 2023
115 S 19TH STOct 13, 2023

Recent transfers within 200m

Block-level acquisition pattern. 10 transactions in the immediate area.

211 S 17TH ST
CASTLEPONT NUMA USA INC → SIDHARTH RIVER REAL ESTATE LLC
Feb 13, 2026
$1,700,000
1619-21 WALNUT ST
WALNUT STREET RETAIL INVESTORS LP → 1619 WALNUT PROPERTY LLC
Jan 8, 2026
$5,230,000
50 S 16TH ST UNIT 4208
YU JASON WADE CARLTON;YU JESSICA WYANNE → CHAUDHRY SHYAM
Dec 23, 2025
$515,000
50 S 16TH ST UNIT 4105
WANG EILEEN YEE → 4105 TWO LIB LLC
Dec 15, 2025
$1,050,000
50 S 16TH ST UNIT 5306
OPERA PHILADELPHIA → ANGSTADT DAVID
Dec 12, 2025
$560,000
110-16 S 16TH ST
SC RITTENHOUSE ROW LLC → 1601 SANSOM INVESTMENTS LLC;LILYSANSOMCAP OWNER LLC
Dec 5, 2025
$23,725,000
1601 CHSTNUT ST UNIT 5101
ANTON HOWARD → NAH-CEDERQUIST HYUN-DUCK;CEDERQUIST ANNA MIN-YOUNG
Sep 22, 2025
$1,066,250
1601 CHESTNUT ST UNIT 4507
CHANDAR ASHWIN → MARRELLA PAUL L;MARRELLA TRACY G
Sep 5, 2025
$635,000
1601 CHESTNUT ST UNIT 4410
YAN HONGCHUN → SHAPIRO MATTHEW;SHAPIRO CHERYL
Aug 22, 2025
$950,000
50 S 16TH ST UNIT 5106
DATTO BRETT → SHAW CONNOR
Aug 1, 2025
$718,500
Data source · last refreshed 5/16/2026, 6:20:02 PM
Zoning Permits (last 2 years)
Philadelphia L&I

Pulled from the city's Carto SQL API. Capped at 5000 most-recent permits per refresh. Geocoding is by the city L&I system and is decent but not perfect; ~1% of permits fall outside Philadelphia bounds and get dropped. Status field is normalized from L&I's free-text values with a best-effort mapping. The Zoning Board of Adjustment decisions dataset (which would have been a better fit) appears to have been retired from OpenDataPhilly.

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