15th Street Desert
Northeast corner of 15th and South Streets
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Awful. |
This lot has no damn excuse to exist. The other horrible empty lots near it are result of a
shitty situation, but this asphalt asshole just a development desert. Its the worst kind-- a combination of adjacent empty lots that come together to be one humongous sea of horseshit. Though once a lively and populated area, it hasn't seen construction in a loooong time.
Read more at the Philadelphia Citypaper's
Naked City Blog!
I looked into the history of this intersection at one point. Up at 15th and Rodman was the site of a horrific boarding house collapse in the late 30s (which apparently provided the impetus for PHA) which killed a number of people. I couldn't find any sign of anything built on the site since.
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