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Originally Posted by philadelphiathrives

Here is an article about the CITC receiving final approval from the City Planning Commission's Civic Design Review committee and many other details. Article includes photos of the architectural model and many renderings.

http://philadelphiaheights.wordpress.com...d-dramatic-development-for-philadelphia/

Found this interesting:

The top third of the tower, beginning apparently at the 48th floor, will have a Four Seasons Hotel with 222 rooms, a spa with an infinity pool (not an Xfinity pool, mind you) facing the existing Comcast Center, a top floor lobby and observation space (with trees in planters that will be higher than the tallest redwoods) and a top floor restaurant. The observation floor will be approximately 900 feet in the air, about 400 feet higher than the City Hall observation deck, and on a clear day viewers will be able to see the casinos of Atlantic City, among other things.

The hotel will be accessible by elevators running along the 19th Street facade that will have glass enclosures, allowing views of the city while traveling all the way up to the top floor.

So hotel guests will go all the way to the top and head down to their rooms. Quite stunning! (I believe the new Wilshire Grand in LA is set up this way as well)