Major section of the old motel has been demolished as of today. Thank god!

I drove down South Broad friday and saw activity at future SLS site. Dumpsters, workers and a concrete pump truck were on the lot next to the old Hamble/Huff offices. Couldnt tell what they were doing exactly.

Awesome! Excited this is finally moving forward.

Very nice! Hopefully demo will start soon so construction can start. PS... there is an SLS thread under the Highrise Proposals section :)

There is some relatively modest residential development underway on walnut near 22nd street, went past there Friday. A fence and project signs up already, looks to be a 4-5 story building with 12 units. Haven't read anything about this anywhere.

Just a bunch of townhomes/rowhomes going up. Nice improvement over what was there but it's a shame this isn't a highrise - and/or it doesn't have ground floor retail.

8/19/14

College House at Hill Square

http://i.imgur.com/zjhauk2.jpg

Rendering

http://www.pennconnects.upenn.edu/al...se_large_2.jpg

Penn Neuroscience still just a hole

http://i.imgur.com/B6cQc4B.jpg

Rendering

http://media.dpn.s3.amazonaws.com/26010_nbsf.jpg

New Penn garage a very very big hole

http://i.imgur.com/qYhP0H0.jpg

Renderings

http://i.imgur.com/HgtXG2z.jpg

temporary front with expansion space for a future building

http://i.imgur.com/vSKxnIj.jpg

Thanks for all the updates!

One random question - and I'm sure this isn't an original thought - but with the Dilworth Plaza rebirth now almost complete,.. and I've read about future plans for LOVE Park ... so, why isn't the area around the Municipal Services Building re-done. It's just a huge piece on concrete with some monopoly pieces and Frank Rizzo (waving like the old Saddaam Hussein statue). If all that area to the east of the building was -- say a big lawn, trees, plants, a few wooden benches ... it could really beautify things, No?

The level of benches in this city... is too damn low! :tantrum:

What's the plan for Love Park? It desperately needs something!

From what I've heard, a new Love Park/JFK Plaza design is being finalized now, Thomas Paine/Reyburn/MSB Plaza will be next. The Phila2035 Central District Plan has an idea for the MSB plaza on page 34.

http://phila2035.org/DP_Centralbook_3_12.pdf

The new Penn Garage has continuous activity. The next couple weeks will be the final weeks of prep work before the Pre-Fabricated concrete slabs are moved in to construct the parking garage. I previously mentioned somewhere on here that construction should be rather quick on the garage.

The sooner the Garage is complete the quicker Penn Tower Garage comes down, then of course Penn Tower.

Thye building being associated with the new Penn Lot does have renderings. I will see if I can get my hands on them. They have changed mutliple times. The latest I heard was 28 floors and over 300 feet.

Thanks man!

Philly 2035... hmm

took a look. I guess some frontage would be nice there. Not sure a great retail location or not, maybe a cafe/wine bar but really how many can you have

It would make more sense to put the tikts both there than in the City Hall courtyard - I know these were idea placeholders

also I kind of like the monopoly pieces and a little more green, maybe beds with benches would go a long way

the elevated deck is interesting. I almost wonder if these spaces could be more modular and allow for easy modification - extended christmas village, summer wine bar, impromptu art exhibits, could even be even space in conjunction with the convention center etc.

You mean the building to be built on top of the new garage? Or the Penn Tower replacement to be attached to the Perelman Center?

Aye, I've seen a few different renderings of this but I cannot remember where nor have I been able to find them again.

More on Dilworth

http://philly.curbed.com/archives/20...rces-joint.php

^^^ You weren't kidding...
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This project reminds me of Lancaster Sq in Univ City in that it's impact punches far above its height. Both projects are not that tall but are massive overall and contain significant retail components.

What's more is that the inclusion of a Whole Foods gives this stretch of the BFP a visible and legitimate retail/food component. Currently the only options are dudes selling drinks out of coolers and the poorly located Cafe Cret.

Wow, looks like Godzilla happened through that part of town.

The building will not actually be built on top of the garage. It will be built next to it. The area is not that big so whatever is being built will go vertical. The garage itself is 3 floors below ground, 5 above. Note that the first floor above ground will be rather large because it will serve as a bus station.

*Driscoll is building the new lot, which is majority owned by Penn 54%, 46% chop. Brandywine will own the new tower and lease it back to Penn.

Perelman Center South is being built and its 12 months off from any deconstruction at Penn Tower, they actually pushed it back to Sept. 2015 I was told yesterday.