As of 2026, 78 of the 187 active building permits issued near the center of Morton in the last 12 months are for new buildings, full demolitions (razes) or other high-impact uses.
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78 new-building, full-demolition (raze) or other high-impact building permits were issued near the center of Morton in the last 12 months and are still active. Search an address above to see what's planned on a specific block.
Morton has 187 building permits filed in the last 12 months, 78 of them new buildings, full demolitions (razes) or other high-impact uses. The map above shows where.
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Search MortonFigures cover an approximate half-mile area around the center of Morton (the crime and permit datasets aren't tagged by neighborhood, so we use a consistent radius), over the last 12 months, compared against the average Philadelphia neighborhood. Source: City of Philadelphia open data (OpenDataPhilly). Open data updates on a delay, so the most recent records may be incomplete. For general information only — not legal, financial, or real-estate advice.
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