The NewCourtland Allegheny Campus in North Philadelphia was designed to serve a community of seniors with low incomes and diverse levels of physical ability and healthcare needs. The initial planning stages for the NewCourtland Senior Services facility began in 2009, with a goal to create a campus that combines housing and services to facilitate independent living for seniors in a significantly under-served area of Philadelphia. The campus embodies a new use for a former brownfield site where an abandoned factory once sat for many years.

The NewCourtland Allegheny Campus developed in stages to include the NewCourtland LIFE Allegheny Center, the Apartments at Allegheny, and the NewCourtland Philadelphia Senior Center-Allegheny branch.

The NewCourtland LIFE Allegheny Center, completed in 2013, houses the NewCourtland LIFE program (Living Independently for Elders). The program is committed to keeping otherwise nursing home-eligible seniors as independent as possible, for as long as possible, in the place they call home. The LIFE Center features several facilities, including a full medical clinic, a wellness center for physical and occupational therapy, personal care spaces, a beauty parlor, greenhouse, administrative offices and a commercial kitchen.

In 2015, the project partners completed Phase 1 of the Apartments at Allegheny—60 one-bedroom affordable senior housing units in a six-story new construction building across from the LIFE Center. Phase 1 of the Apartments included the 8,000-square-foot Senior Center located on the first floor.

The most recent phase of the campus was completed in early 2017 when 45 units were added to the apartment building in a connected, adjacent wing—also six stories—that brought the total number of affordable senior housing units in the building to 105.

Cecil Baker + Partners (Philadelphia) served as architect and interior designer. Additional members of the project team include: lighting designer BEAM, ltd. (Glenside, Pa.); landscape architect Design for Generations LLC (Medford, N.J.); structural engineer The Harman Group (Prussia, Pa.); structural engineer Conn Shaffer Consulting Engineers (Malvern, Pa.); electrical engineer Mulhern Electric (Abington, Pa.); kitchen designer Space by Spielman Ltd. (Philadelphia); gerontologist Lorraine Hiatt, Innovage (New York City); contractor Domus (Philadelphia); and contractor TN Ward (Ardmore, Pa.).