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Originally Posted by 1487
is this student housing? I don't know if that is the case.
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I think that this building may offer apartments geared towards young professionals and/or grad students. I just can't see this kind of development, especially being so far south of campus, holding apartments for students. The developer also isn't a student housing developer as far as I know. Young professionals have less reservations about living north of Girard Avenue; in fact, I'm starting to notice that this group of consumers has no problem with living north of Cecil B. Moore when looking east of the SEPTA Main Line. A few days ago, I noticed a new zoning notice up for an empty lot at 5th and Norris!
The Templetown area has improved to the point where I see it as being primed to hold young professionals priced out of Francisville and other neighborhoods further south of Girard. This neighborhood has some of the best transit in the city, from the Regional Rail, to the BSL, to the 15 trolley, to robust network of 24/7 buses (3, 4, 16, 23, 33, and the BSL Night Owl).