{"id":93070,"date":"2026-01-22T00:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93070\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:17:07","slug":"phillys-logan-triangle-could-become-a-modular-home-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93070\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly\u2019s Logan Triangle could become a modular home hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

A request for information posted online states that the city is seeking \u201csite parameters, facility requirements, operational considerations and financial models to successfully build and operate modular construction housing factories.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Companies will have 60 days to respond.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to gauge from the private sector, from those who run the factories, exactly what it is that they need,\u201d Parker said.\n<\/p>\n

The homes that once populated the Logan Triangle were built in the 1920s on top of a creek bed filled with ash and cinder. In subsequent decades, the mixture behaved like slow-moving quicksand, causing the homes to sink.\n <\/p>\n

The investigation that followed a 1986 gas main explosion revealed just how bad things had gotten. By the following year, the city started condemning the properties and offering volunteer buyouts to residents.\n<\/p>\n

The work was projected to take three years. In the end, it took the better part of two decades, with the last family moving out around 2003.\n<\/p>\n

Since then, the city has tried redeveloping the land<\/a> to no avail, while the site became popular for short dumping. The condition of the land presents the biggest obstacle: Only about half of the site is suitable for redevelopment.\n<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, longtime residents applauded Parker\u2019s push to put the Triangle to use.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people see a problem and they run away from that problem. But we have a mayor that sees a problem, and she says \u2018Let me find a solution to the problem,\u2019\u201d said Cecil Hankins, who has lived in the neighborhood for roughly 40 years.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A request for information posted online states that the city is seeking \u201csite parameters, facility requirements, operational considerations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9537,69,71,70,2312],"class_list":["post-93070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cherelle-parker","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-planphilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93070","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=93070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}