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A 129-unit affordable apartment building is slated for 11th and Berks Streets in North Philadelphia<\/a>, just east of Temple University<\/a>\u2019s campus. <\/p>\n The six-story structure will be built on land owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) but will be developed by New York City-based Jonathan Rose Cos., which has built two other affordable apartment complexes in the area. <\/p>\n The designer for the building is Philadelphia-based WRT architects, which worked with Jonathan Rose on other projects in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve kind of been marching our way down the block,\u201d said Marissa Hebert, an architect for the building with WRT. \u201cThis will be their third project in Philadelphia.\u201d<\/p>\n The others include 120 units in Paseo Verde at the corner of Ninth and Berks and 133 units at NC Five at 10th and Berks. <\/p>\n \u201cBeing able to still have the site so close to Temple, to be able to put affordable units for the actual residents and long-term community members has been really great,\u201d Hebert said. \u201cYou can see the impact of still having affordable housing in this neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n The majority of the units \u2014 61 apartments \u2014 will be affordable to those making 60% of area median income (AMI), or just over $44,000 for a one-person household; 54 units will be at 50% of AMI, which is just under $42,000 for a one-person household, and 14 will be for those making under 20% of AMI, or almost $17,000. <\/p>\n The project is being largely funded through Low Income Housing Tax Credits, a federal program, and subsidies through PHA such as the project-based Section 8 program.<\/p>\n The building will be carved into 60 one-bedroom apartments, 60 two-bedrooms units, and nine three-bedrooms. <\/p>\n \u201cThey said they would have the three-bedroom units on the first floor,\u201d said Elizabeth Segarra, of Asociaci\u00f3n Puertorrique\u00f1os en Marcha (APM), a nonprofit developer and the lead community group in the area. <\/p>\n \u201cWhy? Because they don\u2019t want families on a third floor jumping, and then a single person complaining because they\u2019re hearing too much jumping,\u201d Segarra said. \u201cSo they\u2019re going to keep that kind of environment on the first floor.\u201d<\/p>\n The project will include 21 parking spaces and no ground-floor commercial, although there will be amenities such as a gym and community room in the building. <\/p>\n On the rest of the site, PHA is planning to build 15 for-sale townhouses at affordable prices, as well as recreational spaces including a basketball court. <\/p>\n Hebert of WRT says the apartment building will be the largest \u201cpassive house\u201d project in Philadelphia, in reference to a building standard that tries to minimize energy use in structures. <\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019ll mean lower utility costs for all the residents, better thermal comfort for them, and higher indoor air quality,\u201d Hebert said.<\/p>\n Jonathan Rose plans to begin construction in December and anticipates the building taking two years to complete. Tenants will be able to move in early in 2029. <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not only going to bring more people to the community, it\u2019s going to bring more jobs, and it\u2019s going to bring a live vibe in that area,\u201d Segarra said. \u201cThey really knocked it out of the park.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A 129-unit affordable apartment building is slated for 11th and Berks Streets in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122233,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-324523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-affordable-housing-temple-university-north-philadelphia","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}