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Final East Market towers to be designed by Jewish History Museum architect Ennead

A team involving Ennead Architects, the New York-based firm whose past projects include Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History, is designing a pale glass medical office tower and a terra-cotta residential building for the yet-to-be redeveloped southern portion of the East Market project site in Center City.

The plans for the 23-story medical building and the 24-story (but shorter) tower with 396 dwelling units are scheduled to be reviewed Dec. 3 by Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review board, which offers nonbinding suggestions about the city’s biggest development proposals as part of the building-approval process.

The medical and residential towers to be designed by Ennead would rise on the Chestnut Street-facing portion of the site, where an art deco parking structure slated for demolition now stands.

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