Not Apartments. Townhomes.
172 of them in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania — three and four bedrooms, 1,250 to 1,380 square feet each.
- Homes
- 172
- Type
- Two-story townhomes, private entrances
- Unit Size
- 1,250–1,380 sq ft
- Floor Plans
- 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom
- Built
- 1970
- Location
- 1011 Burton Avenue, Sharon Hill, PA (Delaware County)
- Program
- LIHTC with project-based Section 8
- PPR's Role
- Unit turnarounds, subcontracted to the GC
- Status
- In progress
The Job
Darby Townhouses is a 172-home affordable community in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania — two-story townhomes built in 1970, three and four bedrooms each, running 1,250 to 1,380 square feet. Income-restricted, project-based Section 8, and fifty-five years into its service life.
PPR is turning the homes.
What PPR Handles
Full turnarounds across all 172 townhomes:
- Kitchens
- Bathrooms
- Flooring, both levels
- Interior doors and hardware
- Paint throughout
A Townhome Is Not an Apartment
A one-bedroom apartment is one floor, one bathroom, and about five hundred square feet. A four-bedroom townhome is two floors, interior stairs, more than double the square footage, more bathrooms, more doors, more flooring, and more paint.
Same trades. Roughly two and a half times the unit.
Multiply that by 172 and the schedule stops resembling an apartment turn and starts resembling a subdivision.
Fifty-Five-Year-Old Housing Stock
These homes went up in 1970. Nothing behind the walls is new, nothing is quite standard, and no two units have aged identically.
Turning old stock to a consistent finished spec is a different exercise from turning recent construction. What you find when you open it up varies — what you hand back can't.
Two floors, four bedrooms, 1,380 square feet. Times 172.