Formerly industrial land around the railway tracks north of Lehigh Avenue has become a hot commodity in recent years, as developers try to build big projects on the edge of Kensington.
a 157-unit apartment building on a former tire yard at 2001 E. Lehigh Ave.
“You can’t afford that here,” said Bill McKinney, executive director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp., who notes that the average income in the area’s census tracts is $30,000 a year. “Who is this for? They can say whatever they want, it is not for people from here.” Given the competition for scarce subsidized housing resources for affordable development, defenders of the development boom argue that its unlikely community development corporations or other builders would have the resources to undertake the construction of this much new housing. The alternative, they say, would have been for the area to continue to languish.For Ortega’s East Kensington Neighbors Association, the appeal of these projects is threefold.
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