{"id":321357,"date":"2026-11-05T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321357\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:18:06","slug":"pha-plans-50-new-senior-apartments-in-north-philly-as-larger-redevelopment-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321357\/","title":{"rendered":"PHA plans 50 new senior apartments in North Philly as larger redevelopment stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a question about Philly\u2019s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from you! <a href=\"#Section1\">Ask us a question or send us a story idea you think we should cover.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia Housing Authority is working to transform the agency\u2019s Harrison Plaza development in North Philadelphia, starting with a 50-unit apartment building for older adults at 10th and Thompson streets.\n<\/p>\n<p>Mission First Housing Group is developing the project in partnership with PHA. The four-story building would replace nearly a dozen low-rise townhomes the authority built in the 1950s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first phase of what we hope will be the large-scale revitalization of the Harrison neighborhood,\u201d said Troy Rog-Urman, an architect with Thriven Design, during Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the city\u2019s Civic Design Review committee.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The advisory group, composed of architects and planners, provides feedback on proposed developments early on in the approvals process. Developers are not required to adopt the committee\u2019s recommendations.\n<\/p>\n<p>Plans for the project call for 43 one-bedroom units and seven two-bedroom units. The proposal also includes a roof deck and a community room, which may be home to a health suite providing primary care services to tenants.\n<\/p>\n<p>No additional parking would be offered because there is an existing surface lot, Rog-Urman said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The new building sits next to a linear park in the shadow of a 15-story high-rise that PHA redeveloped in 2023 as 116 units of affordable senior housing. That property is full and has a yearslong waiting list, which prompted Mission First to propose additional senior housing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will alleviate a direct need in this community as residents of Harrison are aging. This then gives them the opportunity to perhaps downsize, if they\u2019re interested in that, but move into a community that would really be made up of their current neighbors,\u201d said Kate Murray, senior development project manager with Mission First, during Wednesday\u2019s meeting.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have a question about Philly\u2019s neighborhoods or the systems that shape them? PlanPhilly reporters want to hear from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2312],"class_list":["post-321357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-planphilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}