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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

617 S 8TH ST

FOR THE ERECTION OF A REAR ADDITION TO INCLUDE ROOF DECK AND ROOF DECK ACCESS STRUCTURE TO AN EXISTING ATTACHED STRUCTURE. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN APPLICATION/PLANS

Council district
District 1
Developer / applicant
Restoration Specialist Inc
Property owner
DESTEFANO JOSEPH
OPA account
023228500
ZIP
19147-2037
Approved
Jan 8, 2026
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Mark Squilla
District 1 · D
215-686-3458
City Hall Room 332
785 projects in this district
2336 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
South Street Headhouse District
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Eleanor Ingersoll
2154133713
Meets: 407 South St Philadelphia, PA 19147.
Neighborhood context (census tract 001500)
Median income
$110,859
Renter occupied
40.74%
Rent burdened
49.02%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
3,251
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

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. 2 permits found.

615 S DELHI STMar 27, 2025
728 S RANDOLPH STNov 26, 2024

Recent transfers within 200m

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

726 S SCHELL ST
ORR JAMES B;KOZAKIEWICZ LAUREN A → MOLIN ANDREA;KHODOROV GREGG
Feb 16, 2026
$1,350,000
623-25 KATER ST
ANZALONE JOSEPH A;ANZALONE DANIELLE M → CHALOM MARC
Feb 12, 2026
$1,325,000
739 BAINBRIDGE ST
AMENDOLA DUANE;AMENDOLA MEENA;GANGADARAN MEENA → LEVINSON MARIA;LEVINSON SAMUEL
Feb 9, 2026
$1,437,500
825 BAINBRIDGE ST UNIT 101
825-831 BAINBRIDGE STREET LLC → SMITH ELLEN F;WALLACE PETER D
Feb 5, 2026
$510,000
724 FITZWATER ST
FITZWATER PARK LLC → GELMAN ANA
Feb 5, 2026
$225,000
727 LOMBARD ST
COHEN TODD R;SCHIFFMAN CAREN → BOTHWELL SPASOJEVIC AMANDA;SPASOJEVIC ANDRE
Jan 23, 2026
$1,400,000
813 KATER ST UNIT B
DIEHN KEVIN → OSHAUGHNESSY THOMAS W
Jan 9, 2026
$316,500
739 CLYMER ST
KRAMER NICOLE;FRITTICCI ROSE A ESTATE OF → KRAMER PHILLIP D
Dec 3, 2025
$10
714 BAINBRIDGE ST UNIT 9
LAVI KAREN → MAZZONE NICHOLAS
Dec 2, 2025
$492,000
31 LOMBARD MEWS
RATHMILL HARRIET → GALLAGHER BRIAN;MANGIOLA LEIGHANNA
Nov 6, 2025
$520,000
745 CLYMER ST
CASEY JESSE N;BISHOP-STONE SARAH S → KINGERY GREGORY;HASSIG KELSEY
Oct 28, 2025
$561,000
632 BAINBRIDGE ST
WONG AMY TR;WONG EDMUND TR;632 BAINBRIDGE STREET TRUST → CONNAIRE CELIA GLENDINNING
Oct 15, 2025
$499,900
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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