Apartment building report

1607-09 Ridge Ave

4 stories · 4,304 sqft · CMX2.5 · built 2021

Vacant lot · 7 units · Wu & Zhuang LLC · assessed $1.5M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $1.5M. On the 1600 block of Ridge Ave.

Property summary

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The estimate, live balance, and back-tax record are different.

BlockReport can calculate the annual tax from the City’s taxable assessment. Payments, credits, interest, and a current amount due live separately in Philadelphia Tax Center.

Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$2,142/year

2026 taxable assessment $153,030 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $1,456,900; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 881000645
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Exemption classificationPartial assessment exemption — basis unverified

2026 OPA taxes $153,030 of $1,530,300 assessed. The assessment fields alone do not identify a program, approval date, expiration, or buyer eligibility.

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Full-assessment scenario$21,421/year

Applying the same rate to the billed-year full assessment. OPA's numeric split does not say when or whether the current treatment changes.

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Historical delinquency sources No current conclusion

The June 2022 delinquency snapshot was not verifiably available in this cached report. No conclusion about a match—or today’s balance—can be drawn from that absence.

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What stands out

From the public record

Records to verify together

Rule-based groupings across this property's dated public records. Each flag shows the records that belong in the same verification step and where the inference stops.

Dated record flagRecords to verify together

More than one separately dated public record deserves a current-status check.

Evidence: 5 open L&I violations · failed L&I inspection activity in 2023, 2025, 2026

Limit: A screening signal, not a foreclosure prediction. Tax entries are historical and must be verified with Philadelphia Revenue.

Dated record flagRecent transition activity

The property has an unusually active paper trail worth monitoring for the next permit, inspection, deed, or listing.

Evidence: 2 permit events since 2023 · 2 zoning/board appeals since 2023

Limit: Record activity alone does not establish that a sale or redevelopment is planned.

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Apartment buildingBuilding report

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

5 open violations

What it is
Vacant lot
Vacant Land Commer < Acre
Owner
Wu & Zhuang LLC
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $1.5M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$338
above the $151 median for 3,983 apartments parcels citywide
Corridor
Girard and Ridge
city commercial corridor
Licensed units
7
active rental license
Assessed value
$1,530,300
2026 OPA · 2027: $1,456,900
Interior area
4,304 sqft
Lot size
2,123 sqft
Stories
4
Built
2021
Zoning
CMX2.5

Every dated deed, permit, inspection, license, violation, certification, and appeal—together.

The timeline combines the report’s transfer history with every successfully fetched L&I and zoning row. A date or status is the City’s filed record, not a statement that the condition remains current; use the official file for live detail.

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Recorded owner
Wu & Zhuang LLC
L&I district
OPA account
881000645

What this record suggests

5 violations are still marked open in the assembled record. The date and status belong in a current L&I check before relying on them.

  1. AppealLIRB SVN Appeal

    Appeal HA-2025-002438 · Closed · Withdrawn

    see attached

  2. AppealZBA Permit Denial - Variance

    Appeal ZP-2023-003571 · Completed · Granted with conditions

    [PERMIT] APPLICATION IS FOR A VISITOR ACCOMODATIONS IN AN EXISTING STRUCTURE. The permit for the above location cannot be issued because the proposal does not comply with the following provisions of the Philadelphia Zoning Code. (Codes can

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Permits and inspections

A permit is the City’s authorization and review pathway for construction or repair work. No fetched permit is not proof that no work ever happened.

L&I inspections are scheduled at defined stages; final inspection and required certifications are separate steps in closing out applicable work.

How construction and repair permits work ↗See City inspection stages by permit type ↗
Assessments and taxes

The OPA assessment is the City’s value on the tax roll—not an asking price, appraisal, or live account balance. The taxable assessment can differ from the full assessment because the City roll records exemptions or other treatment; the report keeps those fields separate.

Your annual estimate uses the taxable assessment. Payments, credits, interest, and the amount due are maintained separately in Tax Center.

How the Office of Property Assessment works ↗Philadelphia property-tax guidance ↗
Violations, cases, and status check current status

An open row is a dated City status, not a diagnosis of current condition or a conclusion about the property. Read the case, notice, and any subsequent inspection together, then verify the live file.

How L&I code enforcement works ↗City violation and order types ↗

Who's behind it

Wu & Zhuang LLC · corporate / LLC owner

• Tax bills mail to 3401 Pietro Way, Philadelphia PA, 19145
• Holds an active rental license for this address

Block context

1607-09 Ridge Ave sits on the 1600 block of Ridge Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1605 Ridge Ave  ·  1611-15 Ridge Ave

Where this comes from

Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 10, 2026, 12:26 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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