Just last week, we told you about Cambridge Row, a partnership between Fairmount CDC and local developer MM Partners to purchase a number of PHA properties, rehab them, and sell them on the open market. This project will be taking place on the 2700-3000 blocks of Cambridge Street, and will involve the revival of ten properties that have been sources of blight for years. And it seems that the spirit of rehabbing properties on Cambridge Street is contagious.

2800 Cambridge St.

2800 Cambridge St. is an imposing corner property, dwarfing the two story homes next door due to its height and the fact that the other homes on the south side of the block are set back from the front of their property line. The building was purchased by Cambridge Partners LLC back in September for $135K, and these developers seem serious about redeveloping this shell.

According to the zoning application, the builders want to create three apartments here, when there were two apartments once upon a time. Part of the renovation will be the a one-story addition on the two-story section of the building, and another addition on the one-story section.

Will see the rear of the building grow some.

Hopefully, the third floor addition will find a way to coexist in an attractive way with the existing mansard roof, and won’t simply look like something that was thrown on top of the building willy nilly. And for such a prominent corner, we’d love to see the stucco taken down and the bricks repointed, but realistically we can’t say we expect to see that happen. Either way, Cambridge Street residents have got to be very pleased to see yet another property on its way to being rehabbed. With the combination of several improving homes and streetscape improvements thanks to a Preservation Alliance Vital Neighborhood grant, this block will soon be one of the best in the neighborhood.