Neighborhood Revitalization

To improve the quality of life for all neighborhood residents, PECCDC transforms vacant buildings and trash-strewn lots into housing, family resource centers, community gardens, playgrounds, and parks.

CURRENT PROJECTS: Making Fattah Homes Green

• Integrated project planning: maximizes opportunities for integrated, cost-effective adoption of green design and construction strategies

• Durability management process: promotes durability and the high performance of the building enclosure and its components and systems through design, materials selection, and construction practices

• Site selection: avoids development on environmentally sensitive sites

• Preferred locations: encourages the building of LEED homes near or within existing communities

• Infrastructure: encourages the building of LEED homes in developments that are served by or are near existing infrastructure

• Community resources and transit: encourages the building of LEED homes in development patterns that allow for walking, biking, or public transit use to minimize dependency on personal automobiles and their associated environmental impacts

• Access to open space: encourages walking, physical activity, and time spent outdoors

• Site stewardship: minimizes long-term environmental damage to the building lot during the construction process

• Landscaping: promotes the use of landscape features that avoid invasive species and minimize the demand for water and synthetic chemicals

• Nontoxic pest control: promotes the use of home features that minimize the need for poisons to control insects, rodents, and other pests

• Compact development: makes use of compact development patterns to conserve land and promote community livability, transportation efficiency, and walkability
• Indoor water use: minimizes the demand for water through water-efficient fixtures and fittings

• Optimize energy performance: improves the overall energy performance of a home by meeting or exceeding the performance of an ENERGY STAR labeled home

• Residential refrigerant management: ensures the performance of air-conditioning refrigerant and minimizes contributions to ozone depletion and global warming

• Material-efficient framing: optimizes the use of framing materials to avoid excess waste

• Environmentally preferable products: increases the demand for these products or those that are extracted, processed, and manufactured within the region

• Waste management: reduces waste generation to a level below the industry norm

• Combustion venting: minimizes the amount of combustion gases that can leak into the occupied space of the buildings

• Outdoor air ventilation: reduces occupants’ exposure to indoor pollutants by ventilating with outdoor air

• Local exhaust: reduces moisture and exposure to indoor pollutants in kitchens and bathrooms

• Distribution of space heating and cooling: provides appropriate distribution of space heating and cooling in the buildings to improve thermal comfort and energy performance

• Air filtering: reduces particulate matter in the air supply system

• Contaminant control: reduces occupants’ and construction workers’ exposure to indoor airborne contaminants through source control and removal

• Garage pollutant protection: reduces occupants’ exposure to indoor pollutants that can come form garages

• Education of tenants: maintains the performance of the building by educating the occupants about the operations and maintenance of the LEED features and equipment

• Education of building manager: maintains the performance of the building by educating the building manager about the operations and maintenance of the LEED features and equipment

Below you will find a list of completed and future projects.

Please click here to view the PECCDC map of completed and proposed projects.

PECCDC DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Project Completed Details
PEC Main Facility: 3902 Spring Garden Street 1990 Converted a vacant warehouse into seven emergency shelter dormitories, eleven transitional housing units, a cafeteria, case management and teachers' offices, parent-child education classrooms, and a teen lounge; top floor of the building houses nine permanent Section 8 rental units, which were developed and are managed in partnership with Pennrose Properties
PEC Service Annex 1993 Renovation of a 2,000 square foot vacant building adjacent to PEC’s main facility to provide space for teen programs, private counseling, programs for children, and offices; PECCDC manages the property
Rowan House 1997 Rehabilitated derelict four-story historic building into 26 units of family transitional housing, employment-training classrooms, childcare space, a community room, and administrative offices; financed through a combination of Low Income Housing Tax Credits, private donations, and public funding; PECCDC manages this property
Imani Homes I 1996 Rehabilitated 19 vacant homes into 24 scattered-site rental units; financed through a combination of public subsidies, philanthropic donations, project-based Section 8 certificates and Low Income Housing Tax Credits purchased by the National Equity Fund; project partner Pennrose Properties manages these units
Partnership Homes   Rehabilitated 17 single-family homes for sale to first-time home buyers, with sale prices ranging from $35,000 to $40,000; funding partner for the project was CoreStates Bank, which invested equity into Partnership Homes and provided mortgages for homebuyers. Philadelphia’s Office of Housing and Community Development provided grants for settlement costs to qualified low-income buyers; finalist in Fannie Mae Foundation Maxwell Award of Excellence for its innovative public-private partnership in developing affordable housing
The PEC Community Playground   Transformed several vacant lots into a 14,000 square foot landscaped outdoor recreation space with play equipment and activity spaces for PEC families and community residents
Families First: 2002 Developed state-of-the-art facility that directly responds to welfare reform by offering employment training and job search services, quality childcare, and primary and preventative health care to homeless, formerly homeless, and low-income families
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) Lancaster Avenue Health Care Center Expansion   PECCDC acted as PCOM’s community developer for property acquisition and community relations in this $3 million Health Care Center expansion project of their existing West Philadelphia Health Care Center located on the 4100 block of Lancaster Avenue; developed over 19 vacant properties
Imani Homes II 2002 Rehabilitated three derelict row homes at 310 N. 31st Street, 4040 Green Street, and 4037 Green Street into two-unit buildings with one two-bedroom and one three-bedroom rental unit for special needs housing in each building; residents are linked to PEC's extensive array of supportive services to foster continued independent living
Imani Homes III 2003 Rehabilitated two properties into six permanent, supportive housing units: three two-bedrooms, two three-bedroom and one four-bedroom; one of the two bedrooms is handicap accessible; serves six women and 12-18 children
Imani Homes IV 2005 Rehabilitated three properties into eight units of permanent, supportive housing located on the 3900 block of Lancaster Avenue
Façade Improvement Project 2007 Helped 44 homeowners make repairs to their homes; work ranged from major roof repairs and window replacements to porch railings and security doors
Imani Homes V 2006 Rehabilitated five properties on Haverford Avenue in Mantua into 11 units of permanent, supportive housing: three two-bedrooms and eight three-bedrooms; serves eleven women and 20–30 children
Homeownership Project Phase I 2007 Rehabilitated 11 homes for affordable homeownership on Haverford Avenue and the 3800 block of Spring Garden Street
Cloisters III 2007 50-unit affordable rental housing project developed by Pennrose Properties and PECCDC located at 38th Street and Haverford Avenue; consists of 6 one-bedroom units, 19 two-bedroom units, and 25 three-bedroom units in a variety of twins, town homes and apartments ranging in size from 900 to 2165 square feet; 10 units developed as special needs housing
Imani Homes VI 2007 10 units of specials needs housing; part of Cloisters III.
Bernice Elza Homes (under construction) Expected 2009 Six-unit permanent, supportive housing development for formerly homeless special needs teen mothers and their children to be located at the corner of 38th and Brandywine Streets; will be a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified, energy-efficient building designed in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania
Fattah Homes I (in predevelopment) Expected 2010 Mixed-use facility located at 4017–4019 Lancaster Avenue; will feature 1600 square feet of retail space on the first floor and six permanent, supportive housing units for formerly homeless mothers with special needs and their children located on the second and third floors
4008 Haverford Avenue (in predevelopment) Expected 2010 Rehabilitation of a vacant rowhome into one ownership unit at 4008 Haverford Avenue
Fattah Homes II (in predevelopment) Expected 2010 Proposed rehabilitation of four vacant properties on the 600 block of 39th Street and the 3900 block of Brandywine Avenue; will provide six permanent, supportive housing units
Artist live-work (in predevelopment) Expected 2010 Proposed transformation of a vacant lot on the 4000 block of Haverford Avenue into 10-15 units of artist live/work space; partnered with the University of Pennsylvania to develop designs that accommodate the special needs of artists
Jannie's Place (in predevelopment) Expected 2011 Proposed new construction (611–627 North 40th Street) and preservation (3902 Spring Garden Street) of 29 units of permanent, supportive housing for formerly homeless women with special needs and their children
Homeownership Phase II (in predevelopment) Expected 2011 Proposed development of 19 affordable homes for purchase along Brandywine Street, Haverford Avenue, and Mount Vernon Street.

 

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