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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

5518 CHESTER AVE

Retail Sales - Food, Beverages, and Groceries; Retail Sales - Consumer Goods

Council district
District 3
Developer / applicant
Tina Accounting & Tax Services Inc
Property owner
ARASA PROPERTY LLC
OPA account
871577800
ZIP
19143-5328
Approved
2025-07-31
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Jamie Gauthier
District 3 · D
215-686-0454
City Hall Room 580
588 projects in this district
3367 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
51st Ward Democratic Executive Committee
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Gregory R. Benjamin
2672549972
Meets: Kingsessing Library 1201 S 51st Street. Philadelphia, PA 19143
Neighborhood context (census tract 007101)
Median income
$40,046
Renter occupied
56.34%
Rent burdened
56.51%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
2,317
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk

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. 9 permits found.

1338 S RUBY ST2026-03-31
1443 S VOGDES ST2025-10-07
1719 S CONESTOGA ST2024-06-17
1717 S CONESTOGA ST2024-06-17
1427 S VOGDES ST2024-04-28
1650 S CONESTOGA ST2023-12-05
5723 KINGSESSING AVE2023-09-15
5723 KINGSESSING AVE2023-09-15
5300 CHESTER AVE2023-09-05
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.