Demolition of the one-story building at the southeast corner of 46th and Spruce Streets, which began early last week, is nearly complete. The building, which served as a social services building, Transition To Independent Living Center, was gutted by a fire in 2011 and remained vacant since then. 

Fire at Transition To Independent Living Center in February 2011 (archived photo).

As was reported earlier, a four-story apartment building will be erected at this location (the address is 4534-36 Spruce Street). The building will include a roof deck and ground-floor retail space that will likely be occupied by a doctor’s office (Penn Family Medicine expressed interest in the space). Here’s one of the renderings of the upcoming building: