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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

138 MASTER ST

For the new construction of an attached building with a roof deck and roof deck access structure, and basement. Size and location as shown in plans.

Council district
District 5
Developer / applicant
Plato A. Marinakos, Jr. Architect, LLC
Property owner
MANN & CO LLC
OPA account
182165000
ZIP
19122-4605
Approved
Jan 9, 2026
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Jeffery Young, Jr.
District 5 · D
215-686-3438
City Hall Room 577
900 projects in this district
4828 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
South Kensington Community Partners
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Marco Gorini
2154273463
Meets: 1525 N American Street
Neighborhood context (census tract 014400)
Median income
$131,027
Renter occupied
47.59%
Rent burdened
29.35%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
5,346
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. 8 permits found.

1437 N HOWARD STJan 8, 2025
1215 SHACKAMAXON STJun 27, 2024
1355-57 N 2ND STJun 7, 2024
1233-37 N FRONT STMay 15, 2024
1500 FRANKFORD AVEMay 9, 2024
1424-38 N FRONT STOct 3, 2023
1422 N FRONT STSep 18, 2023
1209 N HOWARD STSep 7, 2023

Ownership history at this address

From the city realty-transfer-tax feed. Mortgages and satisfactions filtered out.

DEED · Oct 3, 2025
BIAVA MARIA;GALBREATH JENNIFER → MANN & CO LLC
$215,000

Recent transfers within 200m

Block-level acquisition pattern. 12 transactions in the immediate area.

1307 PALETHORP ST
D&D REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT INC → LOMBARDI NICOLAS
Mar 2, 2026
$360,000
1308 N HOPE ST UNIT B
RIFKIND PETER;RIFKIND PETER A;BENARDIS CHRISTOS;FORSCHER JONATHAN → MCSHANE DANIEL;MCSHANE LARISA
Feb 18, 2026
$379,775
176 MASTER ST
THIRTY4 LLC → DAKU HAZBI
Feb 13, 2026
$170,000
140 MASTER ST
BIAVA MARIA;GALBREATH JENNIFER → MO JASON;HARDCASTLE NATASHA
Feb 6, 2026
$654,000
1339-41 N FRONT ST
FRANKLIN SANG → 1339 N FRONT STREET OWNER LLC
Jan 7, 2026
$2,460,000
12 JEFFERSON ST
JEFFERSON STREET PROPERTIES INC → 8-12 JEFFERSON LLC
Dec 29, 2025
$850,000
139 JEFFERSON ST
OXFORD SQUARE LP → SHARMA ANAND K TR;SHARMA RITU K TR;ANAND K SHARMA LIVING TRUST;RITU K SHARMA LIVING TRUST
Dec 9, 2025
$925,000
1400-10 FRANKFORD AVE
LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA → 1400 FA ASSOCIATES LLC
Nov 18, 2025
$2,650,000
1348 MASCHER ST
NATIONAL RESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SERVICES INV → LARA JENNIFER;SABA MARK
Nov 12, 2025
$750,000
1432 HOPE ST
MULLER GREGORY B;MULLER BETH A → PERKINS JAMES JACKSON;TEIXEIRA ROSEMARIE ATHENA
Nov 7, 2025
$977,000
1425 N FRONT ST
REXACH IAN C;LOPEZ ROSMAGGI M → MARKER JASON THOMAS;MARKER MICHELLE A;SHUMWAY SCOTT D;SHUMWAY SARA M
Nov 7, 2025
$335,000
1301 N FRONT ST UNIT E
HANCOCK MATTHEW;WU VIVIAN → WHISLER REESE CHARLES
Oct 24, 2025
$376,000
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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