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The faceted tower crown recalls Art Deco details of other crowns which accentuate tower tops throughout Center City. It will be interesting to see how they do this with glass. Also, there looks to be 3 small setbacks on the tower. All and all above street eye view will be a glass tower. I don't hate. Here are the stats for this 307'6" proposed bldg: Zone CMX-5 Site Area 12,440 s.f . Proposed Floor Area 135,540 s.f . Total Floors 24 stories R esidential Units 85 r esidential dwelling units Retail Commercial Space 4,529 s.f . Bicycle Storage 30 secur e bicycle spaces Parking Accommodation Off -site valet parking located at 618 Market Street Garage |
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Minimal changes. Slight improvements. But's let's just do this already! Ready to get this underway since it is happening.
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Street level/podium looks even more bland. Not expecting much from Toll except height.
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Proposed height is 291 ft per the CDR submission.
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The building should have balconies. Definitely my favorite amenity when I lived in an apartment tower. And I think the high end buyers Toll Brothers is going for would want them. Plus the building would look more like a residential tower and less like an office building.
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This is awful. A great, distinctive, low-rise urban retail block forever ruined:(
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^^ Interesting that Inga suspects that Toll will simply get approvals and then flip the property/project.
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This just makes my blood boil:
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from Inga "Generic, placeless, and grossly underdetailed", true |
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^ That goes back to my point. Our government demanded Toll shorten their tower and incorporate the facades. It was a public attack that made absolutely no financial sense for Toll; on top of it, the city had zero leverage b/c the tower required no zoning variances. Did Kenney really think Toll would say, "Sure Mr. Mayor, we'll redesign the tower and hopefully break even."
The smart thing would have been to privately go to Toll and ask for a better design in exchange for more units (i.e., taller building) to offset the cost of a better design. |
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This could have been so much different from a PR basis-------and I think they could have easily avoided 95% of the controversy and probably would have been welcomed with open arms.
1. save the facades,-----a no brainer 2. included retail at least on the ground floor, so the idea of jewelers row might have continued 3. before releasing any designs they should have had a informational meeting with the neighbors (Washington Sq. west?) to hear just in general their concerns and worries and desires (something many developers do) 4. not try to play games with the lot lines and including a City alley in their plans 5. tried to include some parking (doubtful considering the site, but show that they tried) 6. if they wanted more height or other factors from the City they could have talked to the mayor/others before going public And then as the first tower they are building in Philly, I think it would have served them well to have designed a much better building. Does any of this directly make them more profit? Who knows. But they could have been under construction by now, and time equals money. As it is I don't think you could have drawn a pre-construction roadmap as poorly as the one they have traveled. They've had problems from day 1 and in my observation not that many people like the project as it now stands. |
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