PHILADELPHIA | Highrise Development Thread X - Page 356

PhilliesPhan · #**7101** Posted **Jul 8, 2024, 4:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Redddog

If I was a hotelier, I'd be looking HARD at Philly. This town could fill 3 more hotels to capacity right now. U City, Center City, Old City... All could use one or more. It's crazy.

A hotel on or near Temple's campus would also do extremely well. If you're a parent of a Temple student, then your only on-campus option is The Conwell Inn. I would love to see Temple demolish the Student Health Services building at 1700 North Broad and replace it with a nice hotel fronting the NW corner of Broad and Cecil B. Moore.

TK2001 · #**7102** Posted **Yesterday, 2:32 PM**

Philadelphia skyline 4th of July by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

TK2001 · #**7103** Posted **Yesterday, 2:35 PM**

Philadelphia 1986-Bill Harris by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

Philadelphia 1986-Bill Harris by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

These shots were taken around April 1986. How do I know? The trees are freshly bloomed in these shots, and One Commerce Square (seen under construction) didn't top out until June 6, 1986. One Liberty Place is roughly four to eight stories high at the time of these photographs, just before it poked into the skyline

Philadelphia skyline 1986 by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr
I found this shot on Facebook, taken possibly around late June or early July 1986. That crane you see near the middle is One Liberty Place

Redddog · #**7104** Posted **Yesterday, 2:50 PM**

Cool stuff, man.

Radio5 · #**7105** Posted **Yesterday, 4:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by TK2001

Philadelphia 1986-Bill Harris by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

I found this shot on Facebook, taken possibly around late June or early July 1986. That crane you see near the middle is One Liberty Place

It looks like there were more trees on the parkway back then, am i crazy?

TK2001 · #**7106** Posted **Yesterday, 4:20 PM**

This should help

Philadelphia-Bill Harris by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

Philadelphia-Bill Harris by Philly SkyGuy, on Flickr

These images come from a book published by Bill Harris, this was published at the end of 1986. However he has another one that was published in 1990, and features One Liberty Place. I hope there's more out there

Mr Saturn64 · #**7107** Posted **Today, 3:39 AM**

Man, the gentlemen's agreement really held us back. Provincial thinking at its worst. Philly doesn't look remotely as big as it did in those pictures. I wonder if anyone knows about pre-Liberty Place attempts to break it. I know about Louis Kahn's City Tower, which would have been ugly but part of me wishes it was built just for the sake of architectural revolution.