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Real Estate: Packer Park
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you can find various information about the Packer Park neighborhood
in Philadelphia! Packer
Park is a neighborhood located in the South Philadelphia section
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States that includes
1,200 homes built in two unique builder developments of Packer
Park 1950's and Brinton Estates 1990's. It is one of four
residential communities that form Philadelphia's special Sports
Complex District. The approximate boundaries are Packer Avenue
to the north, Hartranft Street to the south, Broad Street
to the east, and 20th Street to the west. Packer Park is also
home to one of the most organized community groups in the
South Philadelphia region.
Adjacent
is the Reserve at Packer Park a third separate housing development
of 230 homes built 2003-2007 on a triangular land area to
the west of 20th Street, north of Pattison, east of Penrose
Avenue. The Reserve was built on what was formerly a United
States naval housing site, built in 1962 and abandoned in
1995 after the Cold War. The Capehart property, a designated
ACT II site, housed nearly 400 naval families in two story
townhouse structures separated using a cul-del-sac street
design. Upon the Military Base Closing Act in 1995, the United
States government deeded the 27 1/2 acre Brownfield property
to the city of Philadelphia. New luxury townhouses were built
on the site by a private developer styled for families and
is an example of an envirnomentally adaptive re-use of existing
piles and foundations, infrastructure, and materials. The
layout preserved existing green areas augmented with large
back yards, open area pocket parks and tot lots.
The Packer
Park urban townhouses distinguish themselves in South Philadelphia
by including a greater green park setting, airlite homes with
a unique style of step down living rooms with accommodation
for driveway and off street car parking. It was both a design
and community that expressed the American 1950's prosperity
of a mostly second generation Italian immigrant population.
The community was named after the main Avenue by the primary
real estate developer Ludwig Capozzi. Packer Avenue itself
was named in honor of William Fisher Packer a governor of
Pennsylvania and was built as an approach to the American
International exposition grounds of the Sesquicentennial Exposition
of 1926. Following 1926 the exposition was demolished and
the US Navy built temporary housing on the site. The Navy
abandoned the site and moved families to new housing west
of Penrose Avenue. This opened up the site to the private
development of Packer Park on what was reclaimed swampy land
and preserving the vitality of the borders of Board Street's
Southern Blvd, and the Olmstead Brothers architecturally designed
landscaped 4 acre FDR Park on the south and Marconi Plaza,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Park on the upper north. Historically
this area was a section of Passyunk Township, Pennsylvania
a defunct township that was located in Philadelphia County,
Pennsylvania orignially settled by settlers from Sweden. The
township ceased to exist and was incorporated into the City
of Philadelphia following the passage of the Act of Consolidation,
1854. The American Swedish Historical Museum located in FDR
park on the southern border of the Packer Park community memorializes
the Swedish ethnic history.
To the
immediate east is the South Philadelphia sports complex consisting
of Citizens Bank Park, Lincoln Financial Field, Wachovia Spectrum
and Wachovia Center. It was the former site of both now demolished
Veterans Stadium and John F. Kennedy Stadium.
Source
of Article:
Wikipedia.
(2008). Packer Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Retrieved May 29, 2008 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packer_Park%2C_Philadelphia%2C_Pennsylvania
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you can find various external links about the Packer Park neighborhood
in Philadelphia! To view their website, just click on the link.
Packer
Park Civic Association
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