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The Philadelphia Housing Authority expects to start demolishing Bartram Village by early July, a long-awaited milestone in a $425 million plan to rebuild the distressed World War II-era complex and the surrounding area.
The work will kickstart the next phase of the project, which will bring more than 500 new units of public housing to the 22-acre site in Southwest Philadelphia. The effort is a sizable part of an ambitious initiative to remake and expand the agency’s real estate portfolio…