Cope Linder Architects has been instrumental in the continuing renaissance of Philadelphia’s Spring Garden and Art Museum neighborhoods. Through various commissions by the Spring Garden Community Development Corporation and other local Developers, Cope Linder has provided the design of approximately thirty-five new, luxury market-rate, fee-simple, townhouses and over thirty rental “flats” and “lofts” and street-level retail spaces within rehabilitated warehouses and former industrial buildings.
These luxury Townhouses and Carriage houses are, for the most part, “stick-built” construction, incorporating garage parking, generous living spaces, gourmet kitchens, elevators, landscaped gardens and rooftop decks that are afforded incomparable and dramatic views of the Center City skyline. The design vocabulary of these houses might be described as “Transitional”, seeking to find a balance between the historic Victorian context of the neighborhood and modern consumer demands and sensibilities. These houses have routinely sold in the marketplace for between $725,000 and $1.2 M.
The adaptive reuse and rehabilitation projects, accommodating both rental residential and commercial retail tenants, require a thorough understanding of historic tax credit issues, local construction trade practices and reasonable interpretations of the International Existing Building Code that make these projects financially viable.
In addition, Cope Linder has been actively involved in the design of community-wide amenities such as one of the largest and most successfully implemented community gardens in the City, a dog park and other planned streetscape improvements aimed at enhancing the Fairmount Avenue commercial corridor.
Clients/Developers: Spring Garden Community Development Corporation / Loonstyn Development Corp. / B&D Investments, LLC / MM Partners, LLC
