2620 CASTOR AVE
FOR THE ERECTION OF A SEMI-DETACHED STRUCTURE WITH BASEMENT, ROOF DECK (FOR RESIDENTIAL USE ONLY) ACCESSED BY TWO (2) INDIVIDUAL ROOF ACCESS STRUCTURES WITH ONE (1) ELEVATOR OVERRUN, ONE (1) INDIVIDUAL ROOF ACCESS STRUCTURE, AND ONE (1) ACCESSORY UNCOVERED ROOF STRUCTURE (WOOD TRELLIS). SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN IN THE APPLICATION/PLAN. NO SIGN ON THIS PERMIT. *SEPARATE ZONING AND DEMOLITION PERMITS REQUIRED FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ON THE LOT*
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.
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.