PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread II

[PHLtoNYC]

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

[700 Level]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

Fanatics Arena or House of Fanatics

[Skintreesnail]

Not Gritty's House of Pain?

[blart]

^ this

[Groundhog]

With the Sixers move, we should have two new arena names coming in the next few years. How about: The Urban Arena, Insomnia Center, FMCenter, Five Below Arena, The PECO (going well beyond just the power play), or The Wawa...just kidding, they'd close in a heartbreak and blame it on "crime".

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

[El Duderino]

Nice, this was proposed years ago and got zoning permits yesterday. New SEPTA station improvements too

And right next to an old Wendy's lol.

18 Units, Medical Office for Handsome East Passyunk Overbuild
https://jackphillyre.substack.com/p/...e-for-handsome
July 25, 2024

[mcgrath618]

Originally Posted by El Duderino

Nice, this was proposed years ago and got zoning permits yesterday. New SEPTA station improvements too

And right next to an old Wendy's lol.

18 Units, Medical Office for Handsome East Passyunk Overbuild
https://jackphillyre.substack.com/p/...e-for-handsome
July 25, 2024

This looks superb! This is what all development in Philadelphia should aspire to be!

[Arch+Eng]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

Wendy's $5 Biggie Bowl

[Urbanity]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

Vanguard Forum

[Mr Saturn64]

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

What could be some fun sponsors/names?

I like GoPuff Arena, Spark Center, Xfinity Center.

Wells Fargo Center will need a new name after banking giant decides against renewing rights deal in 2025
https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate...riant#cxrecs_s

Guarantee it's either going to be Xfinity or IBX

[bdurk]

That overbuild looks sweet. Also just a thought, is there any way CSX's trains could be diverted under UCity like Amtrak or around the city? I hate both lines that they have that run through Center City and wish we could remove them but I feel like it's probably not possible. Anyone have insight into that?

[PHLtoNYC]

But but but, I thought Starbucks left Philly due to crime... (sarcasm).

Starbucks to open new location on Jefferson Health campus
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...Pos=0#cxrecs_s

The Seattle-headquartered coffee giant is moving into a ground-floor space at the corner of 11th and Chestnut streets in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Gibbon Building. The commercial space was most recently occupied by a TD Bank branch that shuttered in early 2021.

[Skintreesnail]

Interesting article in hidden city about lower schulkill developments.

Along Kingsessing Waterfront, Visions for a Brighter Future Come Into Focus
On a long enough timeline–years, decades, centuries–nothing in a city’s landscape remains the same. Buildings rise and fall, as do neighborhoods. From prosperous, to diminished, and then back again. The hope in Kingsessing is that renewal is in the cards and soon.

https://hiddencityphila.org/2024/07/...me-into-focus/

Interesting mix of history and future. Never knew Bartram's village was built to house defense industry workers during WW2. Some i think we already know about, but don't recall a render of the Bartram's welcome center:



Also a view of the Bartram's north biotech campus from the new srt pedestrian bridge:

[BroadandMarket]

Man these look fucking awesome. Open gangways are so cool. Surely they have to be better for transit police to patrol a car quickly as well? Can you imagine 2031 in Philly? New fare gates at all subway stops with brand new MFL cars and brand new trolleys to take the transit to a 76ers game at 11th and Market. It's an urbanist dream.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...-2029/3923651/

[3rd&Brown]

Random question.

Has anyone noticed in their day to day life, particularly in the suburbs, if it seems that there is a disproportionate number of people moving to the area who are not from here? Do you notice it in terms of out of state license plates in your neighborhood, etc?

I ask because it seems as though the flow of folks in a post-Covid world into the region has not stopped, even as back to work and hybrid policies renew.

I've been poking around in the Delaware County Register of Deeds site, and for example, of the last ten real estate transactions in Chadds Ford Township, it appears as though 6 of them are to people who moved there from out of state (or country): Florida, New York, Virginia, Georgia, California, and India.

This feels disproportionate compared to the past.

[PHLtoNYC]

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

Random question.

Has anyone noticed in their day to day life, particularly in the suburbs, if it seems that there is a disproportionate number of people moving to the area who are not from here? Do you notice it in terms of out of state license plates in your neighborhood, etc?

I ask because it seems as though the flow of folks in a post-Covid world into the region has not stopped, even as back to work and hybrid policies renew.

I've been poking around in the Delaware County Register of Deeds site, and for example, of the last ten real estate transactions in Chadds Ford Township, it appears as though 6 of them are to people who moved there from out of state (or country): Florida, New York, Virginia, Georgia, California, and India.

This feels disproportionate compared to the past.

Perhaps one factor related to the intense competition and price increases in the suburban real estate market?

[Gatorade_Jim]

Originally Posted by BroadandMarket

Man these look fucking awesome. Open gangways are so cool. Surely they have to be better for transit police to patrol a car quickly as well? Can you imagine 2031 in Philly? New fare gates at all subway stops with brand new MFL cars and brand new trolleys to take the transit to a 76ers game at 11th and Market. It's an urbanist dream.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...-2029/3923651/

I haven't been this hyped on Philly in years. It's great to see. I'm hopeful that the state will fund SEPTA. None of this works until that happens.

The open gangways are incredible. I was 100% not expecting this. It prevents people from smoking between cars which happens all the time, especially on the BSL, and allows you to move out of a car much easier if things get uncomfortable.

[Mr Saturn64]

Does any American city have subway cars like that? Usually that's a European thing (and some others, like Montreal)

[Justin7]

Amid a battle over turf plans for FDR Park, experts say claims of PFAS-free fake grass are misleading

[...]

“If tested properly,” Bennett said, “they would find PFAS in the parts per trillion range.”

“In all three of those brands, we find PFAS over and over and over again. So I don’t know why they’re saying it’s PFAS-free. It’s not.”

The city is not conducting its own tests of FieldTurf’s, Shaw Sports Turf’s, and Sprinturf’s products, nor has it obtained samples of the companies’ turf, Charlotte Merrick, a spokesperson for the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, wrote in an email to The Inquirer.

Asked what testing threshold would be used on turf considered for FDR Park, Merrick didn’t specify; instead, she said that the city “would not install turf which contains intentionally added PFAS chemicals.”

[...]

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philad...-20240725.html

[EastSideHBG]

Originally Posted by Skintreesnail

Not Gritty's House of Pain?

"He who breaks the law goes back to the House of Pain!"

Originally Posted by PHLtoNYC

But but but, I thought Starbucks left Philly due to crime... (sarcasm).

Starbucks to open new location on Jefferson Health campus
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...Pos=0#cxrecs_s

The Seattle-headquartered coffee giant is moving into a ground-floor space at the corner of 11th and Chestnut streets in Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Gibbon Building. The commercial space was most recently occupied by a TD Bank branch that shuttered in early 2021.

Well they did have to install special lights in the bathrooms to try to deter addicts from shooting up and had to have employees mop up blood on a regular basis so...

This location is going to come with some extra security benefits so it's not a good correlation.

Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown

Random question.

Has anyone noticed in their day to day life, particularly in the suburbs, if it seems that there is a disproportionate number of people moving to the area who are not from here? Do you notice it in terms of out of state license plates in your neighborhood, etc?

I ask because it seems as though the flow of folks in a post-Covid world into the region has not stopped, even as back to work and hybrid policies renew.

I've been poking around in the Delaware County Register of Deeds site, and for example, of the last ten real estate transactions in Chadds Ford Township, it appears as though 6 of them are to people who moved there from out of state (or country): Florida, New York, Virginia, Georgia, California, and India.

This feels disproportionate compared to the past.

This is an interesting topic and one I have been personally tracking, not growing up in the Philly area myself and thinking about my next move. Many of my neighbors in MontCo are from other states and countries and the pandemic seemed to accelerate this shift. But they are starting to leave, though, for numerous reasons. In the last few months:

• One family from Canada to OH due to a job transfer.
• One family from OH back to OH to be closer to family.
• One single male to FL.
• One couple is building a house in FL and moving at the end of this year.
• One single male will be moving back to FL within a few years.
• Two sisters + Mom from Iran are discussing moving back to FL but also house shopping in PA outside of the Philly area and towards Allentown.
• One couple discussing moving closer to NYC where she is from (she can't stand PA/Philly, we have some funny conversations ha ha).

I am seeing more out of state plates around me than ever, with FL, GA and NY being the top (I don't count NJ or DE, as you never know if that is for a move or just in the area for the day). So anecdotally many arrive but not as many are staying for more than a few years. I've been in the area for many years now and have never seen it this transient.