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SEPARATE PERMITS REQUIRED FOR MEPS WORK AND EXTERIOR SIGNS.*2018 IEBC*"},{"number":"1053153","date":"2020-05-29","work":"Change of Use","type":"Zoning","description":"Zoning Permit","status":"Issued","completedDate":null,"scope":null},{"number":"1047845","date":"2020-06-02","work":"New Construction","type":"Mechanical","description":"Mechanical / Fuel Gas Permit","status":"Completed","completedDate":"2020-11-18","scope":"FOR NEW HVAC SYSTEM TO ACCOMMODATE NEW RETAIL SPACE AS PER APPROVED PLAN. SEE AP#1045902 FOR APPROVED PLANS."},{"number":"FP-2020-000508","date":"2020-06-03","work":"Addition and/or Alterations","type":"Fire Suppression","description":"Fire Suppression Permit","status":"Completed","completedDate":"2020-11-18","scope":"EZ PERMIT SPRINKLER RELOCATION (NFPA 13) - For the Relocation of (64) Sprinkler Heads as per attached standards. Deviations from these standards require submission of construction and site plans."},{"number":"PP-2020-002501","date":"2020-06-23","work":"Alterations","type":"Plumbing","description":"Plumbing Permit","status":"Completed","completedDate":"2020-11-17","scope":"For Interior Plumbing to include [1] lavatory, [3] kitchen sinks, [1] water closet, [1] water dispenser, [1] water heater, [1] booster pump, [1] eye wash, and [1] floor drain. Will install water and sanitary lines to the fixtures, from the mains. All work as per 2018 Philadelphia Plumbing Code section 919 \"single stack system\"."},{"number":"EP-2020-002942","date":"2020-07-10","work":"Addition and/or Alteration","type":"Electrical","description":"Electrical Permit","status":"Completed","completedDate":"2020-11-09","scope":"Temp power/lighting, install lighting, provide and install back of house lighting and exit/emergency lighting; install security wiring, IT cables, music system wiring; power/connections to HVAC and equipment; provide and install switches and receptacles as per 2017 NEC. Fire Alarm is separate."},{"number":"GP-2020-003459","date":"2020-07-14","work":"Shelter/Platform","type":"General","description":"General Permit","status":"Issued","completedDate":null,"scope":null},{"number":"EP-2020-005664","date":"2020-09-01","work":"Addition and/or Alteration","type":"Electrical","description":"Electrical Permit","status":"Completed","completedDate":"2020-11-09","scope":"Modifications to existing fire alarm system; replace existing devices and/or add new devices including fire alarm panels as per 2016 NFPA 72."}],"storyTag":"New construction","storyDelta":null,"timeline":[{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Addition and/or Alteration"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Addition and/or Alteration"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Change of Use"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"New Construction"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Addition and/or Alterations"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Alterations"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Addition and/or Alteration"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Shelter/Platform"},{"y":2020,"k":"permit","w":"Addition and/or Alteration"},{"y":2025,"k":"viol","w":"2 L&I violations"},{"y":2025,"k":"insp","w":"Inspection failed"},{"y":2026,"k":"insp","w":"Inspection failed"}],"rented":false,"licenses":[{"number":"348437","type":"Dumpster License - Private Property","status":"Inactive","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","address":"1715 WALNUT ST","revenueCode":"3230","rentalCategory":null,"units":null,"issuedDate":"2005-12-08","latestIssueDate":"2005-12-08","expirationDate":"2010-07-31","inactiveDate":null},{"number":"377620","type":"Dumpster License - Public ROW","status":"Inactive","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","address":"1715 WALNUT ST","revenueCode":"3417","rentalCategory":null,"units":null,"issuedDate":"2006-07-13","latestIssueDate":"2013-04-08","expirationDate":"2014-03-31","inactiveDate":null},{"number":"377621","type":"Dumpster License - Public ROW","status":"Inactive","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","address":"1715 WALNUT ST","revenueCode":"3417","rentalCategory":null,"units":null,"issuedDate":"2006-07-13","latestIssueDate":"2010-05-04","expirationDate":"2011-03-31","inactiveDate":"2010-09-24"},{"number":"512437","type":"Dumpster License - Private Property","status":"Inactive","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","address":"1715 WALNUT ST","revenueCode":"3230","rentalCategory":null,"units":null,"issuedDate":"2010-09-08","latestIssueDate":"2010-09-08","expirationDate":"2011-07-31","inactiveDate":null},{"number":"856443","type":"Precious Metal Dealer","status":"Active","businessName":"Tiffany and Company US Sales, LLC (Tiffany & Co.)","legalName":"Tiffany and Company US Sales, LLC","address":"1715 WALNUT ST","revenueCode":"3524","rentalCategory":null,"units":null,"issuedDate":"2020-11-30","latestIssueDate":"2025-10-23","expirationDate":"2026-11-29","inactiveDate":null}],"licenseActivity":[{"number":"856443","type":"Precious Metal Dealer","businessName":"Tiffany and Company US Sales, LLC (Tiffany & Co.)","legalName":"Tiffany and Company US Sales, LLC","issuedDate":"2020-11-30","latestIssueDate":"2025-10-23","closureDate":null,"expirationDate":"2026-11-29","inactiveDate":null,"status":"Active","statusLabel":"Active","active":true},{"number":"377620","type":"Dumpster License - Public ROW","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","issuedDate":"2006-07-13","latestIssueDate":"2013-04-08","closureDate":"2014-03-31","expirationDate":"2014-03-31","inactiveDate":null,"status":"Inactive","statusLabel":"Inactive","active":false},{"number":"512437","type":"Dumpster License - Private Property","businessName":"ZARA USA INC","legalName":"ZARA USA INC","issuedDate":"2005-12-08","latestIssueDate":"2010-09-08","closureDate":"2011-07-31","expirationDate":"2011-07-31","inactiveDate":null,"status":"Inactive","statusLabel":"Inactive","active":false}],"businessLicenseSourceDate":"2026-07-25","signals":[{"kind":"record-pressure","level":"elevated","title":"Records to verify together","summary":"More than one separately dated public record deserves a current-status check.","evidence":["2 open L&I violations","$60,669 appeared in the City's June 2022 delinquency snapshot","failed L&I inspection activity in 2025, 2026"],"caveat":"A screening signal, not a foreclosure prediction. Tax entries are historical and must be verified with Philadelphia Revenue."}],"legalChecks":[{"id":"building-certifications","level":"urgent","title":"A life-safety certification is deficient","finding":"Sprinkler Certification: Deficient; Fire Alarm Certification: Deficient","why":"Fire-protection certifications apply to the named system and inspection period only; they are not a whole-building safety certificate. Philadelphia generally requires annual sprinkler, standpipe, fire-alarm, special-hazard, and emergency-power inspections where those systems exist.","action":"Request the correction/reinspection and current filed certificate.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-licenses-and-inspections/inspections/maintenance-certifications/fire-protection-certifications/"},{"id":"permit-status","level":"attention","title":"A permit row needs file-level verification","finding":"2 permits not marked completed: 1048485 (Expired), GP-2020-003459 (Issued). At least one row also carries a completion date, so the City fields conflict.","why":"Issued work is not the same as approved final work. L&I uses final inspections and required certifications to close construction permits; expired, withdrawn, and completed are different City statuses.","action":"Open the permit file and confirm final inspections, holds, and any resulting occupancy certificate.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-licenses-and-inspections/inspections-by-permit-type/"},{"id":"violations","level":"attention","title":"2 open L&I violations","finding":"2 violation rows are retained in the City ledger.","why":"Open notices can accrue fees, block permits or license renewal, and move to court or collection. Standard initial notices generally have a 30-day appeal window; unsafe or imminently-dangerous notices have a much shorter window.","action":"Read the notice—not only the summary status—and confirm reinspection, fees, and appeal posture with L&I.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-licenses-and-inspections/inspections/violation-and-order-types/"},{"id":"dated-tax-balance","level":"attention","title":"A dated tax balance needs a current payoff","finding":"$60,668.56 was recorded in the City’s 2022-06 delinquency snapshot for 2021.","why":"That is historical evidence, not today’s amount due. A current exemption, payment, credit, or assistance agreement can coexist with an older snapshot row.","action":"Check period balances and request a dated Property Payoff statement for settlement.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/guides/philadelphia-tax-center/what-to-do/"},{"id":"investigations","level":"verify","title":"Failed inspections are dated events—not the current condition","finding":"2 failed, 0 passed, and 0 CLOSED investigation outcomes are in the fetched history; the latest dated visit was FAILED on Mar 13, 2026.","why":"A PASSED or FAILED value applies to that inspection visit. CLOSED is a separate source status; none of the three alone proves the parent permit or violation case closed—or describes today’s condition.","action":"Open the parent case/permit for each material failure and confirm its later disposition.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-licenses-and-inspections/inspections-by-permit-type/"},{"id":"business-license","level":"verify","title":"A historical business license is not current operating authority","finding":"Dumpster License - Private Property #348437: Inactive; Dumpster License - Public ROW #377620: Inactive; Dumpster License - Public ROW #377621: Inactive since Sep 24, 2010; Dumpster License - Private Property #512437: Inactive","why":"A license record proves the licensed activity existed at that time. An inactive or expired license does not establish that the business still operates—or that it may legally reopen under the same use.","action":"If business income matters, verify the current tenant, use registration, and active license in eCLIPSE.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/departments/department-of-licenses-and-inspections/licenses/business-licenses/"},{"id":"deed-chain","level":"verify","title":"The latest nominal transfer is not a market sale—or a title opinion","finding":"The latest deed in the assembled record moved for nominal consideration.","why":"A $1 or nominal deed can be a valid family, estate, or entity transfer. It does not establish a sale price, clear title, or by itself prove a tangled title.","action":"Read the recorded deed and have the title search confirm every grantor, grantee, estate/probate step, lien, and authority to sell.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/services/property-lots-housing/get-a-copy-of-a-deed-or-other-recorded-document/"},{"id":"commercial-trash","level":"verify","title":"A separate Commercial Trash account may apply","finding":"OPA classifies the parcel as commercial. BlockReport does not receive a current Commercial Trash account balance.","why":"Philadelphia charges qualifying small commercial, mixed-use, and multi-unit properties that use City collection; exemptions and private collection can change applicability. A use category alone does not prove a fee is due.","action":"Check the Commercial Trash account inside the date-effective Property Payoff.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/2026-06-09-pay-your-trash-fee-bill-by-june-30/"}],"closingChecks":[{"title":"Property Sales Certification","body":"The seller must obtain Philadelphia’s certificate showing the base zoning, last use in the zoning record, and open violations. The City warns that it does not prove Building Code occupancy or show zoning overlays.","action":"Obtain the fresh certificate and compare it with the CO, permits, and Atlas overlays.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/services/permits-violations-licenses/get-a-certificate/get-a-property-sales-certification/"},{"title":"Date-effective City Property Payoff","body":"The Tax Center Property Payoff covers Real Estate Tax, Commercial Trash, and L&I abatement-work invoices. Philadelphia says it does not include business-tax debts or liens, water and sewer charges, or fines for code violations.","action":"Request the City statement effective through settlement; read every period and invoice.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/guides/philadelphia-tax-center/what-to-do/"},{"title":"Professional title and water-lien searches","body":"OPA ownership, deed summaries, and a zero tax balance are not clear title. Mortgages, judgments, municipal claims, water liens, easements, heirs, and other encumbrances require separate searches.","action":"Use a Pennsylvania lawyer/title company and obtain owner’s title insurance; order the separate water search/payoff.","url":"https://www.phila.gov/2026-04-07-why-title-insurance-is-your-best-friend-when-buying-a-home-in-philadelphia/","secondaryUrl":"https://www.phila.gov/services/water-gas-utilities/pay-or-dispute-a-water-bill/resolve-water-liens-judgments/"}]}