I spent a week in Philadelphia last month participating in a training on Historic Real Estate Finance from the National Development Council. The five-day course - organized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with support from the 1776 Foundation - gave me an expanded understanding of how redevelopment projects are supported through a range of private and public investments.
One highlight of the week was a tour of the University City neighborhood (organized by Melissa Jest from the National Trust and led by local resident/developer Ryan Spack) where we learned about the reuse of a former bank building on Baltimore Avenue as the Mariposa Food Co-op and the Project Rehab program of the University City District. We also got to peek inside the Frank Furness designed former Saint Peter’s Church of Christ - a building that was narrowly saved from demolition early this year.
I uploaded a set of photographs from the training and tour to Flickr and included a few favorites below.
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Citation
@online{pousson2015,
author = {Pousson, Eli},
title = {University {City,} {Philadelphia}},
date = {2015-07-17},
url = {https://elipousson.github.io/posts/2015-07-17-university-city-philadelphia},
langid = {en}
}