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Zoning · Approved

Zoning: Zoning Permit

1500S-40 JOHN F KENNEDY BLVD

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Council district
District 5
Developer / applicant
MMB CONTRACTORS INC
Property owner
SEPTA
OPA account
875100080
ZIP
19102-1710
Approved
Apr 27, 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
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 000403)
Median income
$181,066
Renter occupied
39.53%
Rent burdened
17.67%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
1,047
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. 3 permits found.

1525 CHERRY STMay 11, 2026
1523 CHERRY STMay 11, 2026
1527 CHERRY STApr 7, 2026

Recent transfers within 200m

Block-level acquisition pattern. 6 transactions in the immediate area.

1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 1116
MICHAEL D LEFKOWITZ AND SHARON A LEFKOWITZ REVOCABLE TRUST AGREEMENT → ZHANG XUEBIN
Feb 19, 2026
$250,000
1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 1407
KUAN-KUET TR;ELIZABETH LILY TR;HSIAO FANG YEN RESTATED LIVING TRUST;YEN HSIAO FANG TR → SARISKY JULIANA
Feb 6, 2026
$265,000
1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 820
LIN BRIAN → SANTO MELISSA MARIE
Dec 19, 2025
$450,000
1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 1111
ROMANSKI DENNIS;ROMANSKI KATHERINE → PELINO JEANNIE
Nov 12, 2025
$295,000
1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 919
ERENHOUSE RONALD → REETH KEVIN M II TR;REETH FAMILY TRUST
Sep 23, 2025
$410,000
1600-18 ARCH ST UNIT 2009
MCVEY EMMETT M → MCVEY MICHAEL;RIVERA HECTOR
Sep 22, 2025
$300,000
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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