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Commercial property report

1522 Walnut St

5,126 sqft · CMX5 · built 1930

Store · Robert G Levin Irrevocable Deed · assessed $1.5M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $1.6M. On the 1500 block of Walnut St.

Property summary

Assessment$1,527,6002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $1,573,400 Last sale—No sale value available Est. tax bill$21,383/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits8Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$21,383/year

2026 taxable assessment $1,527,600 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $1,573,400; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 882427500
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

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The property record, over time

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Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line

$0$1.0M$2.0M2016 OPA assessment: $1.2M2017 OPA assessment: $1.2M2018 OPA assessment: $1.4M2019 OPA assessment: $1.4M2020 OPA assessment: $1.4M2021 OPA assessment: $1.4M2022 OPA assessment: $1.4M2023 OPA assessment: $1.5M2024 OPA assessment: $1.5M2025 OPA assessment: $1.5M2026 OPA assessment: $1.5M2027 OPA assessment: $1.6M2012 — 2012-06-20: Zoning board appeal · 2012-12-13: Building standards appeal$1.6M201220152018202120242027
This propertyAppeal
2012-12-13: Building standards appeal
Every dated record2 events · scroll to browse
  1. AppealBuilding standards appeal
  2. AppealZoning board appeal
Commercial propertyProperty report

This is a store, recorded under the city's commercial category. The homeowner tools (rent estimate, homestead playbook) don't apply, so they're hidden. The full record and owner trail are below.

What it is
Store
Store 2 Sty Masonry
Owner
Robert G Levin Irrevocable Deed
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $1.5M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$307
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Market West
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$1,527,600
2026 OPA · 2027: $1,573,400
Interior area
5,126 sqft
Lot size
2,992 sqft
Built
1930
Zoning
CMX5

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  1. AppealBuilding standards appeal

    Appeal 19327 · CLOSED · APPROVED

    ON 11/14/12 DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTION ISSUED NOTICE OF REFUSAL FOR APPLICATION #434251.

  2. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 17897 · CLOSED · Granted

    PERMIT FOR THE ERECTION OF ADDITION ON THE SECOND STORY REAR, FOR A THIRD STORY ADDITION(MAXIMUM HEIGHT NTE 40 FEET), TO AN EXISTING TWO STORY STRUCTURE , FIRST FLOOR EXISTING RETAIL SALE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS , SECOND FLOOR FOR E

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Block context

1522 Walnut St sits on the 1500 block of Walnut St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1520 Walnut St  ·  1524-30 Walnut St

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Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 2:50 AM ET. Available City datasets are queried from OpenDataPhilly (phl.carto.com) and the cited City ArcGIS feeds; record queries paginate rather than silently taking a first page. “Unavailable” means the source query failed or was not supplied, not “no record.” Reports re-pull on view after seven days and on an overnight rolling schedule; citywide benchmarks recompute weekly. Source dates still govern: the parcel-level tax-delinquency snapshot is June 2022 and the separate detailed tax ledger ends in 2016, so neither establishes today’s balance. The live balance and date-effective payoff must be verified in Tax Center. AI-written passages are grounded in the assembled record and rejected if they state a number the record does not hold.

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