Venice One Development / 1 Leverington Avenue

• Development Outline
  • Key Players

    Seller	Developer	Investor	Architect
    Dan Neducsin--Neducsin Properties Bill Green (former mayor)	Philadelphia Management 1411 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19102	Lubert-Adler Partners The Cira Center 2929 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-2868	Stephen Varenhorst Stephen Varenhorst Architects 1100 East Hector Street, Suite 113 Conshohocken, PA 19428

  • Plan basics
    • 280 units, 200 1-bedroom, 80 2-bedroom (possibly modified to 210 1-bedroom and 70 2-bedroom)
    • 365 parking spaces (8 of which are handicapped) (possibly modified to 355)
    • 89 feet tall. 55 feet allowed by right. By comparison, the Venice Lofts building at 2 Leverington is 69 feet tall. The Green Lane bridge is 25 feet tall. The big railroad bridge is 70-75 feet tall.
    • 1100 feet long (.2 miles)
    • Gross floor area of 352,056 sf (FAR 1.78). 266.717 sf allowed (FAR 1.35)
• Developers Documents
  • Illustrative Site Plan and Section 3D Model Renderings and Elevations
    (Strange colors are an artifact of my converting the 11x17 originals (paper) to a pdf)
  • Flood Hazard Analysis
  • Pennoni Traffic Impact Study
  • Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
• The building is proposed to be clad with plastic panals from Trespa. The proposed panals are Italian Walnut (See the image below). We took some photos of a building at 40th and Chestnut that incoporates similar (different colors) panals.
• Neighborhood Council Documents
  • 07/24/2007--MNC Testimony to the Architectural Committee of the Historical Commission
  • 07/25/2007--MNC Position Statement
  • 08/10/2007--MNC Testimony to the Historical Commission
• Legal Documents
  • 10/20/2008--ZBA Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law ( View as pdf )
  • 12/02/2008--MNC Brief to Commonpleas Court
  • 01/05/2009--Venice One Brief to Commonpleas Court
• Timeline
  • 06/19/2007--Presentation to Planning Commission
    
    • Planning commission recommedations at the hearing
    • MNC Notes for testimony Saftey, traffic and flood concerns.
    • The planning commission voted unanimously to support the project
  • 07/24/2007--Presentation to the Architectural Committee of the Historical Commission
    • 07/24/2007--MNC Testimony to the Architectural Committee
    • 07/24/2007--Architectural Committee minutes
    • The architectural committee recommended denial.
  • 08/10/2007--Historical Commission Hearing
    • 08/10/2007--MNC Testimony to the Historical Commission
    • 08/10/2007--Historical Commission minutes
    • The historical commission voted unanimously to approve
  • 09/05/2007--Manayunk Development Corporation Approval
    • Manayunk Development Corporation, after many meetings with the developers, approved a slightly modified design. The developers agreed to shift 10 two-bedroom units to 10 one-bedroom units. By removing 10 parking spaces they have crated some additional green space near the Green Lane Bridge. They have fractionally reduced the size of the development. They have agreed to a pedestrian bridge across the canal around the midpoint of the project.
  • October 3 meeting (scheduled)
    

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