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Mayor Cherelle Parker announced Wednesday she wants to bring a modular home factory to the Logan Triangle — an infamous slice of North Philadelphia — as part of her $2 billion plan to preserve and create 30,000 housing units.
If approved, the factory would sit on a 35-acre site near Roosevelt Boulevard where nearly 1,000 homes once stood. In the late 1980s, the city began demolishing them because the properties were sinking into the unstable soil below — and had been for decades…