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Commercial property report

1625 Chestnut St

144,660 sqft · CMX5 · built 1990

Store · Individual owner on record · assessed $31M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $31M. On the 1600 block of Chestnut St.

Property summary

Assessment$30,500,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $30,500,000 Last sale$282MRecorded 1999 Est. tax bill$426,939/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits8Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Street view of 1625 Chestnut St
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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$426,939/year

2026 taxable assessment $30,500,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $30,500,000; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

Official current account balanceCheck live

A Tax Center balance is net of bills, payments, credits, interest, and adjustments. A credit—or an amount due—is not automatically “back taxes.”

OPA 882862100
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

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 flagRecent transition activity

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

Evidence: 8 permit events since 2023

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

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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
Shop Cent Area Masonry
Owner
Individual owner on record
Individual name redacted
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $31M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$211
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Corridor
Market West
city commercial corridor
Assessed value
$30,500,000
2026 OPA · 2027: $30,500,000
Interior area
144,660 sqft
Lot size
71,335 sqft
Built
1990
Zoning
CMX5

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
Individual owner on record
L&I district
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OPA account
882862100

What this record suggests

The timeline preserves the dated City rows that matched this parcel. It is a sequence to verify, not a conclusion about present condition.

  1. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 26094 · CLOSED · Granted

    PERMIT FOR THE ERECTION OF ONE (1) FREESTANDING ACCESSORY SIGN AND ONE (1) FLAT-WALL ACCESSORY SIGN. SIZE AND LOCATION AS SHOWN ON PLANS. SIGNS ACCESSORY TO A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED COVER MALL.

  2. AppealBuilding standards appeal

    Appeal 25371 · CLOSED · APPROVED

    ON 5/14/15, THE DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS ISSUED A NOTICE OF REFUSAL FOR APPLICATION #588309.

  3. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 24484 · CLOSED · Granted

    SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR CREATION OF ONE (1) TENANT SPACE (SPACE #114) FROM THREE (3) TENANT SPACES (114, 116 & 118). FOR A TAKE OUT RESTAURANT WITH SEATING IN SPACE # 114 WITH EXISTING COMMERCIAL/RETAIL SPACES AS PART OF AN EXISTING OFFICE BU

  4. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 24227 · CLOSED · Withdrawn

    SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR FOR PROPOSED PREPARED FOOD SHOP WITH LESS THAN 20 SEATS IN SPACE # 109 WITH EXISTING COMMERCIAL/RETAIL SPACES AS PART OF AN EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IN AN EXISTING STRUCTURE (SIZE AND LOCATION AS

  5. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 8110 · CLOSED · Granted

    PERMIT FOR A KIOSK TO INCLUDE THE RETAIL SALE OF COFFEE TO GO AND FOR THE RETAIL SALE OF PRE-PACKAGED FOOD ON THE FIRST FLOOR (SPACE #180) WITHIN AN EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING WITH USES AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED.

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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

L&I enforcement records can include warnings, notices, orders, inspections, and later resolution activity. A closed visit is still a historical record; it is not a missing event.

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

Block context

1625 Chestnut St sits on the 1600 block of Chestnut St. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 1601 Chestnut St  ·  1601 Chestnut St

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 4:47 PM 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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