In Temple Area

According to this week's ZBA docket, TU Ventures has a plan to build five buildings on five vacant lots on the 1900 block of N 7th St., between Berks and Norris. We've covered plenty of development of student housing in the neighborhoods surrounding Temple University, and just this week told

Transit-oriented development. It’s got a ring to it, and in places like Sweden and Denmark it’s been happening for decades. It’s the kind of urban development that provides mixed-use buildings close to transit stations, and it's something that we've been only marginally successful with in Philadelphia over the years.

At 9th

In February, we brought 1901-03 Cecil B. Moore Ave. to your attention, noting that two quadplexes were on the way next door to a church that was once a theater. Nearly three months later, we see that these new buildings are well on their way to completion in time for

In December, we told you about five homes replacing empty lots at 2001-09 W. Oxford St., a few blocks north of the Girard College campus. At the time, the developers had just gone to zoning. Now, these buildings have been framed out and are getting facades.

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We were in the neighborhood today, driving around and snapping photos of all the new construction projects going on around Temple, where the latest crop of graduates emerged into a white hot job market just last week. Were we generally aggravated by the number of closed streets due to said

A few months ago, we brought a fabulous and unique building to your attention at 1519-21 N 16th St., mentioning a new addition being built immediately next door. This building looks like nothing we've seen before in Philadelphia or any other city. The bays are amazing.

While we would ordinarily be concerned

A couple months back, we told you about a recently started student housing project at 1516-18 N 15th St., replacing a demolished Voodoo Church. The former church, like many properties in the area, was over a hundred years old and built in the Italianate style.

North Broad Living, a company that owns

Last fall, we told you about Diamond Green, a new student housing development at 10th & Diamond Sts.

Brought to us by Mosaic Development Partners, Orens Brothers Real Estate, and Metamorphosis Community Development Corporation this mixed-use development will have 92 residential units as well as approximately 12K sqft of retail space. Parking, too.

Since we

Last summer, we gave you a big picture look at the tremendous amount of student housing development that's going on around Temple University. One of the photos that we used in that post showed five homes on the 1800 block of North 17th St. in the process of being constructed.

Back in early February, we brought the development at 1326-28 N 15th St. to your attention, noting plans for one of the larger new student housing developments in the Temple area. The project, which sits on the corner of 15th and Ingersoll Sts., has made tremendous progress in just two months.

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