Building-Façade Preservation on the 3600 Block of Lancaster Ave.

In 2018, facing vigorous citizen opposition, CA Ventures, developer of student housing, reached an uneasy agreement with Powelton Village residents regarding the developer’s proposed University City Link apartment project on the 3600 block of Lancaster Ave. The agreement preserves the historic facades of the mixed-use brick buildings that front the block, keeps the full corner buildings, allows partial demolition of the backs of the interior buildings, and reserves the ground level for retail activity.