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Originally Posted by jaysb
I think someone on here lives here and has commented previously. I think there are multiple builders with varying quality. The flood plane seems to be a real concern maybe they can chime in with what sold them being next to a raging river in times of a climate crisis.
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I live here. We're 22 feet above sea level. On something of a bluff. High enough that FEMA doesn't require flood insurance, though I've purchased it myself.
Yes it's isolated. Talk to me in 5 years when we've fully latched into the grid, all the warehouses are gone and replaced by multi-family buildings with ground floor retail, we're connected to the trails, have our own high performing elementary school, and have the highest income in Philadelphia.
Yes I know it's weird but you don't move here for what it is today. You move here for what it will be 5 years from now. More than anything, what I've learned from being here is that there is a huge market for new construction in Philadelphia and if there was more space for neighborhoods like this the city would be growing a lot faster.
Believe it or not, there are a lot of people who want to be in Philadelphia but don't want to live in a 14 foot wide 100 year old house with nob and tube wiring and don't want to do a full on reno. And they don't want to live in a new construction in fill house on a shitty street full of trash with overhead wires and gun shots around the corner.
It's not rocket science, really. There are 1000 homes in this neighborhood. About 350 are sold and settled. Another 100 or so are under contract.
It will get better over time for sure. We have nearly daily street cleaning, private trash collection in actual trash cans with lids that don't blow trash all over the neighborhood, a full time landscaping crew that walks around the neighborhood all day picking weeds and trash, quiet solitude and the beautiful river 50 feet away.
Have a nice day everyone!