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Philadelphia Apartment Development Inches Closer to Alleged 'Walmart of Heroin'

CoStar Insight: Rising Construction Costs Drive Massive Shift in Apartment Development From Center City to Kensington
A vacant commercial storefront along Philadelphia's Kensington Avenue between Somerset and Allegheny stations. (CoStar)
A vacant commercial storefront along Philadelphia's Kensington Avenue between Somerset and Allegheny stations. (CoStar)
CoStar Analytics
November 13, 2019 | 3:33 P.M.

Last year, The New York Times Magazine proclaimed Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood as having the reputation of being the largest open-air narcotics market on the East Coast and the "Walmart of Heroin," based on one local pastor’s now infamous quote.

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