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Originally Posted by rduffy5
This is a little scary. Looking at this developer's previous projects, they are truly senior assisted living and ugly as sin. Hopefully he will get his act together on this. I wonder what he'll do with the empty lot just east of the Royal Theater? Are apartments totally out, or just out for the Kater street side?
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The developer isn't alone, they are partnering with OCF Realty, who has done a boatload of developments all throughout South Philly, including a few on South Street.
The development plan was also bought from Dranoff, which includes demolishing everything except for the facade of the Royal, and building a new apartment building on the site and the empty lots to the east and west of the Royal. The only change seems to be for sale townhomes facing Kater instead of the apartment building abutting Kater.
You can see renderings of the plan here:
http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/...-design-hurdle