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"I think it had really terrific character, even though it was badly damaged by fire and had been vacant for a couple of years,” says Balderston. “It was clear when we first toured it that it was really something special and that it could be brought back with a little TLC.”

New Affordable Apartments Arrive in Overbrook Developer Odin Properties turned an apartment building gutted in a fire four years ago into attractive apartments within reach of the average Joe and Jane.

"Philadelphia is in some ways the ideal place for enacting a 15 or 20-Minute City. “It’s a great strategy for dense older cities like Philadelphia, which wasn’t built around the car — it was built around walking and public transit,” Bryant says.

And now is in at least one way the ideal time to be deliberate about forming neighborhoods that are pocket cities..."

What's a 20-minute neighborhood, and could they work in Philly? Paris, Portland, Houston, Detroit plan neighborhoods where residents can walk or bike to everything in 15 minutes. How about Philly next?