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3001 Castor Ave

30,832 sqft · I3 · built 1950

Commercial · City Of Philadelphia · assessed $5.9M (2026) · 2027 OPA assessment $4.6M. On the 3000 block of Castor Ave.

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Property summary

Assessment$5,858,0002026 OPA assessment · 2027: $4,563,100 Last sale$7.1MRecorded 2024 Est. tax bill$82,000/year2026 taxable assessment × 1.3998% Tax delinquency—Snapshot unavailable Permits0Dated events in report Violations0 openNo historical match in fetched records

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Estimated annual Real Estate Tax$82,000/year

2026 taxable assessment $5,858,000 × 1.3998%. Estimate—not a bill or account balance.

OPA also publishes a 2027 assessment of $4,563,100; it is not the 2026 billed-year value.

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OPA 882864900
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Exemption classificationNo exemption shown

2026 taxable assessment equals the full assessed value.

Historical delinquency sources Record found

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.

A separate historical parcel ledger ending in 2016 records $117,073.59 and a lien entry. It is shown as historical context only.

2015$26,715.02 total · $16,871.68 principal · $3,208.95 interest · $2,614.28 penalty2016$90,358.57 total · $83,080.23 principal · $1,246.20 interest · $830.80 penalty

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What stands out

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Finding

Permit between transfers

Record summary

$3.1M transfer in 2020; $7.1M transfer in 2024 (+793% between recorded amounts).

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The property record, over time

Every dated deed, permit, inspection, license, violation, certification, and appeal is placed on the City’s annual assessment line. Select a point to read what happened; the line is an assessment history—not a sale-price chart or appraisal. OPA has also published a 2027 assessment of $4,563,100; it is not yet the billed-year tax basis.

Assessment history · all dated City records marked on the line

$0$5.0M$10M$4.6M201220152018202120242027
Property assessmentAssessmentDeed / saleAppeal

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Every dated record7 events · exact dates, newest first
  1. Deed / saleDeed / sale $7.1M
  2. Deed / saleDeed / sale $3.1M
  3. AppealRB_LIRB
  4. AppealRB_LIRB
  5. AppealBuilding standards appeal
  6. AppealRB_LIRB
  7. AppealZoning board appeal
Commercial propertyProperty report

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historical lien entry · through 2016

What it is
Commercial
Amuse Comm Club Masonry
Owner
City Of Philadelphia
OPA tax treatment
Assessed $5.9M
Taxable assessment on the roll
$ / sq ft
$148
above the $130 median for 12,035 commercial parcels citywide
Assessed value
$5,858,000
2026 OPA · 2027: $4,563,100
Interior area
30,832 sqft
Lot size
140,000 sqft
Built
1950
Zoning
I3

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Browse 7 dated records deeds, permits, inspections, licenses, violations, certifications & appeals
  1. Recorded transfer$7.1M transfer

    2024

  2. Recorded transfer$3.1M transfer

    2020

  3. AppealRB_LIRB

    Appeal 36357 · OPEN · MOOT

    THE APPLICANT BELIEVES THAT 24TH POLICE OBJECTION WAS IN ERROR AND THERE IS ANOTHER SAOL LICENSE NO. 704830 FOR THE ADJOINING BLDG KNOWN AS THE CASTOR CLUB OR VYCE OPERATED BY THE ITALO AMERICAN RECREATIVE CIRCLE AND MAY BE THE SUBJECT OF

  4. AppealRB_LIRB

    Appeal 28216 · CLOSED · Withdrawn

    VIOLATION IS FOR LACK OF SPECIAL ASSEMBLY LICENSE WHICH I AM CURRENTLY BEING RENEWED WITH THE DEPARTMENT. AN EXTENSION OF TIME IS REQUIRED FOR SAME AND THE VIOLATION SHOULD BE COMPLIED ON OR BEFORE THE HEARING DATE.

  5. AppealBuilding standards appeal

    Appeal 27387 · CLOSED · APPROVED

    ON 3/17/2016, THE DEPARTMENT OF LICENSES AND INSPECTIONS ISSUED A NOTICE OF REFUSAL FOR APPLICATION #669705.

  6. AppealRB_LIRB

    Appeal 26302 · OPEN · MOOT

    APPELLANT APPEALS FROM THE DENIAL OF LICENSE RENEWAL BASED UPON DISAPPROVAL BY THE 24TH DISTRICT POLICE DISTRICT AS ARBITRARY WITHOUT MERIT.

  7. AppealZoning board appeal

    Appeal 16525 · CLOSED · Granted

    PERMIT FOR THE DEMOLITION OF ONE EXISTING BUILDING, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING BUILDING (BUILDING 2 AKA B AND BUILDING ATTACHED TO BUILDING B ON PLAN) AND THE CONVERSION OF BUILDING 2/B TO A PRIVATE SOCIAL CLUB TO INCLUDE LIVE EN

What this record suggests

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Block context

3001 Castor Ave sits on the 3000 block of Castor Ave. Open the block report to compare its parcels, ownership and public-record history.

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Next door: 3025 Castor Ave  ·  3000r Castor Ave

Where this comes from
Methodology & freshness

This report was assembled Jul 9, 2026, 4:22 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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