PHA plans to move headquarters from Center City to Sharswood
The Philadelphia Housing Authority plans a five-story limestone-and-terra-cotta office building at Ridge Avenue and Jefferson Street in the city's Sharswood neighborhood as its new headquarters, according to documents filed with the city's Civic Design Review board.
Plans for the 119,000-square-foot PHA building also call for retail space and a cafe on the structure's ground floor, according to the documents posted to the review board's website.
The board, which offers non-binding design suggestions for the city's biggest development projects, is scheduled to review the project on Sept. 6.
The PHA is moving its headquarters from western Center City to Sharswood, a neighborhood just north of Girard College, as part of its $500-million redevelopment plan involving hundreds of new homes for the North Philadelphia neighborhood. An 18,500-square-foot Save-A-Lot grocery store is also planned near the new PHA headquarters building.